The definitive book of the Vietnam War - and a classic of war literature to rank alongside All Quiet on the Western Front and The Naked and the Dead.
Mustered out of the Marine Corps in 1967, Philip Caputo went on to a prize-winning career as a journalist, covering the war in Beirut and the fall of Saigon before leaving the Chicago Tribune to devote himself to writing full-time. His novels are Horn of Africa, DelCorso's Gallery, Indian Country and Equation for Evil. He is also the author of a collection of novellas, Exiles, and a second volume of memoir, Means of Escape. A contributing editor for Esquire, Philip Caputo has also written for the New York Times, the Boston Globe and the Los Angeles Times. He and his wife, Leslie Blanchard Ware, live in Connecticut.
"A singular and marvellous work – a soldier's-eye account that
tells us, as no other book that I can think of has done, what it
was actually like to be fighting in this hellish jungle"
*New York Times*
"All men who go to war experience a moral as well as a physical
odyssey, but few were as dramatic as that of Philip Caputo … a
sensation that was elevated to instant classic status … I would
rate his book much higher than Michael Herr’s celebrated Dispatches
… much of the value of this immensely readable tale of a young
man’s murderous follies is that he tells many things that are not
peculiar to Vietnam, but embrace the behaviour and feelings – or
lack of them – of soldiers on all battlefields"
*Sunday Times*
"Unparalleled in its honesty, unapologetic in its candour and
singular in its insights into the minds and hearts of men in
combat, this book is as powerful to read today as the day it was
published in 1977. Caputo has more than earned his place beside
Sassoon, Owen, Vonnegut, and Heller"
*Kevin Powers*
"To call this the best book about Vietnam is to trivialize it. A
Rumour of War is a dangerous and even subversive book, the first to
insist that readers asks themselves the questions: How would I have
acted? To what lengths would I have gone to survive? A terrifying
book, it will make the strongest among us weep"
*Los Angeles Times Book Review*
"Caputo's troubled, searching meditations on the love and the hate
of war, on fear and the ambivalent discord warfare can create in
the hearts of decent men are amongst the most eloquent I have read
in modern literature"
*New York Review of Books*
"A singular and marvellous work - a soldier's-eye account that
tells us, as no other book that I can think of has done, what it
was actually like to be fighting in this hellish jungle" * New York
Times *
"All men who go to war experience a moral as well as a physical
odyssey, but few were as dramatic as that of Philip Caputo ... a
sensation that was elevated to instant classic status ... I would
rate his book much higher than Michael Herr's celebrated Dispatches
... much of the value of this immensely readable tale of a young
man's murderous follies is that he tells many things that are not
peculiar to Vietnam, but embrace the behaviour and feelings - or
lack of them - of soldiers on all battlefields" -- Max Hastings *
Sunday Times *
"Unparalleled in its honesty, unapologetic in its candour and
singular in its insights into the minds and hearts of men in
combat, this book is as powerful to read today as the day it was
published in 1977. Caputo has more than earned his place beside
Sassoon, Owen, Vonnegut, and Heller" -- Kevin Powers
"To call this the best book about Vietnam is to trivialize it. A
Rumour of War is a dangerous and even subversive book, the first to
insist that readers asks themselves the questions: How would I have
acted? To what lengths would I have gone to survive? A terrifying
book, it will make the strongest among us weep" * Los Angeles Times
Book Review *
"Caputo's troubled, searching meditations on the love and the hate
of war, on fear and the ambivalent discord warfare can create in
the hearts of decent men are amongst the most eloquent I have read
in modern literature" * New York Review of Books *
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