A review by kmedema
A Rumor Of War by Philip Caputo

5.0

My second favorite 'Nam book ever (after The Things They Carried.) Caputo is a Loyola grad and was in the first wave of Marines to go in-country in 1965. People tend to think of 1968 as the bloody year in Vietnam, but as Caputo's book shows '65 and '66 were no cake walks. Dead American boys are dead American boys, and Caputo really makes you think about the price of war and the long-lasting legacy of U.S. involvement in Vietnam.