White cloth on boards. 346 pp. Volume has a vague pressure mark on the front cover. Jacket is worn all edges, chipped and soiled looking from rubbing, a scuff on the front panel, spine faded. Now in clear cover. "This is the story of men at war. It is about the things men do in war, and the things war does to them. A Rumor of War is Philip Caputo's personal memoir of the sixteen months he spent as a Marine infantry officer on the line in the Vietnam War. It is also his memorial to the men with whom he served. Above all, it is a vivid recreation of the reality that is war: the boredom and the bravery, the sacrifice and the fear, the mindless savagery and the profound communion of men at war." Made into a television movie in 1980, the screenplay written by John Sacret Young. Starring Brad Davis, Keith Carradine, Michael O'Keefe.

Fiction, Novel, Vietnam War