Upon its publication in 1977, it shattered America’s indifference to the fate of the men sent to fight in the jungles of 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.Ī Rumor of War is far more than one soldier’s story. Caputo landed at Danang with the first ground combat unit deployed to Vietnam.
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
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