A review by rockinghorsedreams
A Rumor Of War by Philip Caputo

4.0

I was hesitant about this book for the first half of this book, and wouldn't have recommended it to most people. In the first two thirds of the book Caputo was a young marine, and like a lot of marine he thought he was God's gift to war. But after he becomes a monster and through that more human the story comes home and his reflections allow the previous writing to take hold of you. It's still not my favorite Vietnam memoir, but very good nonetheless.