Picador
Paperback
384 pages • $20.00
ISBN: 978-1-250-11712-0
The Classic Vietnam Memoir
Philip Caputo
Fortieth Anniversary Edition
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’s history’s ugliest wars, he returned home—physically whole but emotionally wasted, his youthful idealism forever gone. A Rumor of War is bigger 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 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.”
© Rob O’Neal
Philip Caputo is an award-winning journalist—the co-winner of a Pulitzer Prize—and the author of many works of fiction and nonfiction, including his most recent novel, Some Rise by Sin. He and his wife, Leslie Ware, divide their time between Norwalk, Connecticut, and Patagonia, Arizona.
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