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

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As a Vietnam veteran and 30-year Army officer, I was slightly conflicted while reading “A Rumor of War.” Caputo gives a detailed, grippingly realistic, and honest account of what combat was like at the small platoon level during the Vietnam War in 1965 - 1966. He does not pull any punches in leveling criticism for mistakes in the war. He also does not cover-up his shortcomings as a marine platoon leader as noted when he lost control of his men in a rampage and when he lost control of himself and sent out a patrol with implicit orders to “assassinate” two suspected Viet Cong. He and five of his marines were court-martialed for the second incident but were found not guilty. I was troubled by his conduct in this “murder” and the subsequent investigation.While I am proud of my Vietnam service, I am not proud of the pressure that senior leaders put on their subordinates to achieve high body counts. Such pressure led to incidents like those depicted by Caputo.I wish that Caputo had spent just a bit more time on the last month of the Saigon regime while he was a correspondent for the Chicago Tribune.My only regret in reading this frank account is that I had not read it earlier.

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