The 40th anniversary edition of the Classic Vietnam memoir--featured in the PBS documentary series The Vietnam Wa r by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick--with a new foreword by Kevin Powers In March of 1965, Lieutenant Philip J. -- Los Angeles Times Book Review.
It belongs to the literature of men at war.
Heartbreaking, terrifying, and enraging.
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 them.
Upon its publication in 1977, it shattered America\'s indifference to the fate of the men sent to fight in the jungles of Vietnam.
A Rumor of War is far more than one soldier\'s story.
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.
Caputo landed at Danang with the first ground combat unit deployed to Vietnam.
The 40th anniversary edition of the Classic Vietnam memoir--featured in the PBS documentary series The Vietnam Wa r by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick--with a new foreword by Kevin Powers In March of 1965, Lieutenant Philip J
