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A Rumor of War

Author: Philip Caputo
ISBN: 9781473591851
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Extended: CAPT, LT, WO2, SGT
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Caputo served as a Marine officer in Vietnam in 1965–66, and the book contains autobiographical elements. The novel’s protagonist is accused of war crimes, and the book deals intelligently with the effects of a poorly understood insurgent conflict on a conventional military force. Caputo went on to become an award-winning correspondent, and covered the fall of Saigon in 1975 for the Chicago Tribune

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