Author
Philip Caputo
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A Rumor of War
by Philip Caputo
Philip Caputo's A Rumor of War is the foundational Vietnam memoir: the story of a young Marine lieutenant who landed in Danang in 1965 certain of the cause and left sixteen months later with that certainty burned out of him. It's a firsthand account of what combat asks of ordinary men, and what it takes back.