A Rumor of War

Author:   Philip Caputo
Publisher:   Perfection Learning
ISBN:  

9780812430561


Pages:   356
Publication Date:   15 November 1996
Format:   Hardback
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A singular and marvelous work. -- The New York Times Compelling . . . A thoroughly honest view of what the experience of Vietnam meant to a young college graduate, a 'gung-ho' lieutenant in the marine corps who enlisted for the 'heroic experience' of war . . . It is the most eloquent statement yet on what Vietnam was for the lower echelons who had to do the dirty work. -- Seattle Times Heartbreaking, terrifying, and enraging . . . It will make the strongest among us weep. -- Los Angeles Times

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Author:   Philip Caputo
Publisher:   Perfection Learning
Imprint:   Perfection Learning
Dimensions:   Width: 13.70cm , Height: 3.30cm , Length: 20.80cm
Weight:   0.408kg
ISBN:  

9780812430561


ISBN 10:   0812430565
Pages:   356
Publication Date:   15 November 1996
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained
The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available.

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To call it the best book about Vietnam is to trivialize it . . . A Rumor of War is a dangerous and even subversive book, the first to insist-- and the insistence is all the more powerful because it is implicit-- that the reader ask himself these questions: How would I have acted? To what lengths would I have gone to survive? The sense of self is assaulted, overcome, subverted, leaving the reader to contemplate the deadening possibility that his own moral safety net might have a hole in it. It is a terrifying thought, and A Rumor of War is a terrifying book. -- John Gregory Dunne, Los Angeles Times Book Review <br> Caputo' s troubled, searching meditations on the love and hate of war, on fear, and the ambivalent discord warfare can create in the hearts of decent men, are among the most eloquent I have read in modern literature. -- William Styron, The New York Review of Books <br> Every war seems to find its own voice: Caputo . . . is an eloquent spokesman for all we lost in Vietnam. -- C. D. B. Bryan, Saturday Review <br> A book that must be read and reread-- if for no other reason than as an eloquent statement against war. It is a superb book. -- Terry Anderson, Denver Post <br> This is news that goes beyond what the journalists brought us, news from the heart of darkness. It was long overdue. -- Newsweek <br> Not since Siegfried Sassoon's classic of World War I, Memoirs of an Infantry Officer, has there been a war memoir so obviously true, and so disturbingly honest. -- William Broyles, Texas Monthly <br>


To call it the best book about Vietnam is to trivialize it . . . A Rumor of War is a dangerous and even subversive book, the first to insist-- and the insistence is all the more powerful because it is implicit-- that the reader ask himself these questions: How would I have acted? To what lengths would I have gone to survive? The sense of self is assaulted, overcome, subverted, leaving the reader to contemplate the deadening possibility that his own moral safety net might have a hole in it. It is a terrifying thought, and A Rumor of War is a terrifying book. -- John Gregory Dunne, Los Angeles Times Book Review Caputo' s troubled, searching meditations on the love and hate of war, on fear, and the ambivalent discord warfare can create in the hearts of decent men, are among the most eloquent I have read in modern literature. -- William Styron, The New York Review of Books Every war seems to find its own voice: Caputo . . . is an eloquent spokesman for all we lost in Vietnam. -- C. D. B. Bryan, Saturday Review A book that must be read and reread-- if for no other reason than as an eloquent statement against war. It is a superb book. -- Terry Anderson, Denver Post This is news that goes beyond what the journalists brought us, news from the heart of darkness. It was long overdue. -- Newsweek Not since Siegfried Sassoon's classic of World War I, Memoirs of an Infantry Officer, has there been a war memoir so obviously true, and so disturbingly honest. -- William Broyles, Texas Monthly


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