A rumor of war : with a twentieth anniversary postscript by the author
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Author
Published
New York : Henry Holt and Co., 1996., New York : Henry Holt and Co., 1996., , 1977.
Edition
lst edition.
Physical Desc
xxi, 356 pages ; 21 cm.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 20
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Location | Call Number | Status |
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Kent Denver Upper School - NONFICTION | 959.704 Cap | On Shelf |
Weld School - Valley High Library - BIOGRAPHY | B CAP | On Shelf |
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Published
New York : Henry Holt and Co., 1996., New York : Henry Holt and Co., 1996., , 1977.
Format
Book
Edition
lst edition.
Language
English
Accelerated Reader
UG
Level 7.5, 20 Points
Level 7.5, 20 Points
Notes
General Note
"An Owl book".
Description
In March of 1965, Marine Lieutenant Philip J. Caputo landed at 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, emotionally wasted, his youthful idealism shattered. A decade later, Caputo would write in A Rumor of War, "This is simply a story about war, about the things men do in war and the things war does to them." It was far more than that. It was, as Theodore Solotaroff wrote in The New York Times Book Review, "the troubled conscience of America speaking passionately, truthfully, finally." It was the book that shattered America's deliberate indifference to the fate of the men it sent to fight in the jungles of Vietnam, and in the years since it was first published it has become a basic text on that war. But in the literature of war that stretches back to Homer, it has also taken its place as an esteemed classic. As William Broyles--himself a decorated Marine veteran of Vietnam--wrote in Texas Monthly, "Not since Siegfried Sassoon's classic of World War I, Memoirs of an Infantry Officer, has there been a war memoir so obviously true, and so disturbingly honest."
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Caputo, P. (1996). A rumor of war: with a twentieth anniversary postscript by the author (lst edition.). Henry Holt and Co..
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Caputo, Philip. 1996. A Rumor of War: With a Twentieth Anniversary Postscript By the Author. Henry Holt and Co.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Caputo, Philip. A Rumor of War: With a Twentieth Anniversary Postscript By the Author Henry Holt and Co, 1996.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Caputo, Philip. A Rumor of War: With a Twentieth Anniversary Postscript By the Author lst edition., Henry Holt and Co., 1996.
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