The Resource A rumor of war, Philip Caputo
A rumor of war, Philip Caputo
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- Summary
- 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."
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- lst ed.
- Extent
- xxi, 356 p.
- Note
- "An Owl book"
- Contents
-
- Splendid little war
- Officer in charge of the dead
- Death's grey land
- Isbn
- 9780805046953
- Label
- A rumor of war
- Title
- A rumor of war
- Statement of responsibility
- Philip Caputo
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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."
- Biography type
- autobiography
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Caputo, Philip
- Dewey number
- 959.704/38
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- DS559.5
- LC item number
- .C36 1996
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Caputo, Philip
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975
- Soldiers
- United States
- Label
- A rumor of war, Philip Caputo
- Note
- "An Owl book"
- Contents
- Splendid little war -- Officer in charge of the dead -- Death's grey land
- Control code
- ocm34564956
- Dimensions
- 21 cm.
- Edition
- lst ed.
- Extent
- xxi, 356 p.
- Isbn
- 9780805046953
- Lccn
- 96019314
- System control number
- (OCoLC)34564956
- Label
- A rumor of war, Philip Caputo
- Note
- "An Owl book"
- Contents
- Splendid little war -- Officer in charge of the dead -- Death's grey land
- Control code
- ocm34564956
- Dimensions
- 21 cm.
- Edition
- lst ed.
- Extent
- xxi, 356 p.
- Isbn
- 9780805046953
- Lccn
- 96019314
- System control number
- (OCoLC)34564956
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