#647
Title: A Rumor of War
Author: Philip Caputo
Publisher: Owl Books (Henry Holt)
Year: 1977/1996
378 pagesEarly Caputo, a mid-1970's memoir of his time as a marine in the early part of U.S. military involvement in Vietnam. I wasn't aware of Caputo's legal difficulties and was riveted. Read it with Swofford's Jarhead and Kidder's My Detachment.
Linguistic nitpick: Vietnamese is written in Roman letters, so there's no excuse for misspelling. Không, not khoung; cam on, not cam ong. That's the editor's job.
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