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A Rumor of War: First Edition

by Caputo, Philip



  • Bookseller: Yesterday's Muse US (US)
  • Seller Inventory #: 059257
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Book condition: Good
  • Jacket condition: Good
  • Edition: First Edition
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • ISBN 10: 003017631X
  • ISBN 13: 9780030176319
  • Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston
  • Place: 00206
  • Date published: 1977

Description

00206: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1977 1977 FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING HARDCOVER. 'First Edition' stated on copyright page, $10.00 list price on dust jacket flap. Light stain on top dust jacket corner causes slight transfer to cover corner, two 1" dust jacket tears, dust jacket spine faded, light cover & dust jacket wear. "The extraordinary betseller that provides a close-up look unlike any other, at the American experience in Vietnam. Powerful, vivid, compassionate, and heartbreaking, here is a very personal and yet universal grunt's-eye-view of the hopeless brutality and the ultimate, and seemingly endless horror where men and governments sacrificed their morality and the souls of their nation." CONTENTS: Prologue; The Splendid Little War; The Officer in Charge of the Dead; In Death's Grey Land; Epilogue.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 2. y.



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Book summary

This powerful memoir chronicles Caputo's hitch in Vietnam as a Marine lieutenant, describing his transformation from an idealistic young soldier into a ruthless killer, and then to a cynical critic of war's sickening waste and madness.


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