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A Rumor of War
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Henry Holt & Co (1977-05)
ISBN: 003017631X
EAN: 9780030176319
Dewy Decimal #: 959.70438
Hardcover: 346 pages
Edition: 1st
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
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.
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Customer Reviews
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Viet nam account
Rating  (5)
Date: 2008-10-08
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
Caputo's account as a combat officer is the best book on direct experience in Nam. It ranks up there with Normen Mailer's The Naked and fhe Dead and Audie Murphy's WW2 account of his combat experience in To Hell and Back superbley written--gripping. Maurice
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Excellent look into front line Vietnam
Rating (5)
Date: 2008-06-06
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
I thought this book was the best book on Vietnam that I have ever read. Its a facinating look into life as a line officer in a front line Marine Infantry batallion during the early part of the war. Caputo holds nothing back when it comes to describing life on the front line and what goes through the minds of these young, too young Marines who fought on the front line. An excellent read and I highly reccomend it.
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Well written and engrossing
Rating (5)
Date: 2008-06-03
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
Its a page turner from start to finish. A very unique view of the war.
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Caputo wasn't much of a marine
Rating  (1)
Date: 2008-05-31
5 out of 11 customers found this reveiw helpful
Caputo wasn't much of a marine. He started complaining about Vietnam before he arrived. Every page is filled with criticism, cynicism, griping, complaining, and self-serving tripe. He wanted to be a hero, but he didn't have what it took to be anything but a whining wimp. Certainly he writes well. But writing well and living well are entirely different. He doesn't understand honor or duty. Sure the war was politicized, but so is every war. Sure the rules of engagement were stupid, but a soldier serves. Caputo did not serve; rather he whined. Many of us who served in Vietnam believed there were many things that made no sense. But we didn't turn tail and run. We served. For those who want to understand what is was like to be a soldier in Vietnam, read "We Were Soldiers Once... and Young" or "Steel My Soldiers' Hearts". If you want to know what is was like to be useless in Vietnam, read this book.
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Real life account
Rating  (4)
Date: 2008-05-29
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
I assigned this book to my college students for a closer glimpse of the Vietnam Conflict. I had not read it before, but had done research and study on the subject. I found Caputo's book to be insightful, controversial and thought provoking. He doesn't glamorize the war but explains how it effected soldiers and one of the many reasons it was such a mess. Throughout the book, Caputo shows how the conditions changed the average American teenager into a robotic killer and how their experiences stayed with them. In the end, he speaks against the war, but not in the normal Jane Fonda version of bashing the military and labeling them rapists and baby killer. Caputo talks about how the government was at fault and created the situations that lead to PTSD and other issues for returning soldiers.
A must read to understand the war and its effects on our soldiers.
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