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Philip Caputo

20th-anniversary edition of Caputo's memoir of fighting in Vietnam


In March of 1965, Marine Lieutenant Philip Caputo landed at Danang with the first ground combat unit deployed to Vietnam. Sixteen months later, having served on the line in one of modern history&s ugliest wars, he returned home — physically whole but emotionally wasted, his youthful idealism forever gone. A Rumor of War is far more than one soldier&s story. Upon its publication in 1977, it shattered America&s indifference to the fate of the men sent to fight in the jungles of Vietnam. In the years since then, it has become not only a basic text on the Vietnam War but also a renowned classic in the literature of wars throughout history and, as the author writes, of “the things men do in war and the things war does to men.”
“To call it the best book about Vietnam is to trivialize it... A Rumor of War is a dangerous and even subversive book, the first to insist —and the insistence is all the more powerful because it is implicit— that the reader ask himself these questions: How would I have acted? To what lengths would I have gone to survive?

Idioma Inglés
Publicación 2012
Editorial Reviews
Categoría Biografías y Memorias


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