02420cam a2200361 i 4500 1297963153 TxAuBib 20240604120000.0 960409s1996||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 96019314 9780805046953 080504695X (OCoLC)34564956 TxAuBib rda Caputo, Philip. A rumor of war : with a twentieth anniversary postscript by the author / Philip Caputo. lst edition. New York : Henry Holt and Co., 1996. xxi, 356 pages ; 21 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "An Owl book". Splendid little war -- Officer in charge of the dead -- Death's grey land. In March of 1965, Marine Lieutenant Philip J. Caputo landed at Danang with the first ground combat unit committed to fight in Vietnam. Sixteen months later, having served on the line in one of modern history's ugliest wars, he returned home--physically whole, emotionally wasted, his youthful idealism shattered. A decade later, Caputo would write in A Rumor of War, "This is simply a story about war, about the things men do in war and the things war does to them." It was far more than that. It was, as Theodore Solotaroff wrote in The New York Times Book Review, "the troubled conscience of America speaking passionately, truthfully, finally." It was the book that shattered America's deliberate indifference to the fate of the men it sent to fight in the jungles of Vietnam, and in the years since it was first published it has become a basic text on that war. But in the literature of war that stretches back to Homer, it has also taken its place as an esteemed classic. As William Broyles--himself a decorated Marine veteran of Vietnam--wrote in Texas Monthly, "Not since Siegfried Sassoon's classic of World War I, Memoirs of an Infantry Officer, has there been a war memoir so obviously true, and so disturbingly honest.". 20240604. Caputo, Philip. United States Marine Corps Biography. Vietnam War, 1961-1975 Personal narratives, American. Soldiers United States Biography. Autobiographies. Personal narratives.