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A Rumor of War: With a Twentieth Anniversary Postscript by the Author

by Caputo, Philip



  • Bookseller: Ghost River Books CA (CA)
  • Seller Inventory #: 50142
  • Format: Paperback
  • Book condition: Good - V. Good
  • Edition: Stated first edition
  • Binding: Paperback
  • ISBN 10: 003017631X
  • ISBN 13: 9780030176319
  • Publisher: Henry Holt & Co
  • Place: New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Date published: 1977

Description

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Henry Holt & Co, 1977. 346 pp. Caputo was a young infantry officer sent to Indochina in 1965, who returned in 1975 as a newspaper correspondent and saw the fall of Saigon. Softcover has small bumps to corners, a crease to bottom back corner. a bit of edgerubbing. Former owner's name on first page. Text is clean and unmarked.. Stated first edition. Trade Paperback. Good - V. Good.

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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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