Philip Caputo

A Rumor of War Philip Caputo

Publisher Marketing: In March of 1965, Marine Lieutenant Philip J. 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? The sense of self is assaulted, overcome, subverted, leaving the reader to contemplate the deadening possibility that his own moral safety net might have a hole in it. It is a terrifying thought, and A Rumor of War is a terrifying book. John Gregory Dunne, Los Angeles Times Book Review Caputo s troubled, searching meditations on the love and hate of war, on fear, and the ambivalent discord warfare can create in the hearts of decent men, are among the most eloquent I have read in modern literature. - William Styron, The New York Review of Books" Review Citations: New York Times 02/23/1997 pg. 24 (EAN 9780805046953, Paperback) Wilson Public Library Catalog 01/01/1998 pg. 916 (EAN 9780805046953, Paperback) Publishers Weekly 10/21/1996 (EAN 9780805046953, Paperback) Wilson Public Library Catalog 01/01/2004 pg. 941 (EAN 9780805046953, Paperback) Wilson Public Library Catalog 12/31/2008 pg. 1188 (EAN 9780805046953, Paperback) Wilson Senior High Core Col 01/01/2011 pg. 813 (EAN 9780805046953, Paperback) Wilson Public Library Catalog 01/01/2013 pg. 1410 (EAN 9780805046953, Paperback) Wilson Public Library Catalog 01/01/1993 pg. 899 (EAN 9780345331229, Mass Market Paperbound) Contributor Bio:  Caputo, Philip Philip Caputo is the author of fifteen books, including the classic Vietnam War memoir A Rumor of War and the novel Horn of Africa, which was a finalist for the National Book Award. His most recent book is The Longest Road. As a journalist, Caputo won the Pulitzer Prize and has published work in the New York Times, Washington Post, Esquire, and National Geographic, among other publications. Contributor Bio:  Ganser, L J L. J. Ganser is the winner of three AudioFile Earphones Awards and the 2005 Nonfiction Audie for his work in "The Island at the Center of the World. "He has appeared onstage in New York and in regional productions, has several episodes of" Law & Order" in his list of credits, and has recorded over two hundred audiobooks. Before becoming an actor, he was a ship s cook in Maine, a roofer, a painter, and a swim team coach.