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A Rumor of War (Paperback)
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A Rumor of War (Paperback)
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List price R518
Loot Price R471
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The first memoir of the Vietnam War and an all-time classic of war
literature |40TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION| In March 1965, Marine
Lieutenant Philip J. Caputo landed in Danang with the first ground
combat unit committed to fight in Vietnam. Sixteen months later,
having served on the line in one of modern history's ugliest wars,
he returned home - physically whole but emotionally destroyed, his
youthful idealism shattered. A decade later, having reported
first-hand the very final hours of the war, Caputo sat down to
write 'simply a story about war, about the things men do in war and
the things war does to them'. It is widely regarded as one of the
greatest war memoirs of all time. ____________________ 'A singular
and marvellous work - a soldier's-eye account that tells us, as no
other book that I can think of has done, what it was actually like
to be fighting in this hellish jungle' The New York Times
'Unparalleled in its honesty, unapologetic in its candour and
singular in its insights into the minds and hearts of men in
combat, this book is as powerful to read today as the day it was
published in 1977. Caputo has more than earned his place beside
Sassoon, Owen, Vonnegut, and Heller' Kevin Powers 'To call this the
best book about Vietnam is to trivialize it. A Rumour of War is a
dangerous and even subversive book, the first to insist that
readers asks themselves the questions: How would I have acted? To
what lengths would I have gone to survive? A terrifying book, it
will make the strongest among us weep' Los Angeles Times Book
Review 'Caputo's troubled, searching meditations on the love and
the hate of war, on fear and the ambivalent discord warfare can
create in the hearts of decent men are amongst the most eloquent I
have read in modern literature' New York Review of Books 'Superb.
At times it is hard to remember that this is not a novel' New
Statesman
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