A Rumor of War

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On the occasion of its fortieth anniversary, the classic Vietnam memoir A Rumor of War, hailed as 'a singular and marvelous work' by The New York Times, is now available with a new introduction.
In March of 1965, Marine Lieutenent 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 historys ugliest wars, he returned home'physically whole but emotionally wasted, his youthful idealism forever gone.

A Rumor of War is far more than one soldiers story. Upon its publication is 1977, it shattered Americas 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 says, of 'the things men do in war and the things was does to men.'

- With a new foreword by Kevin Powers