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A Rumor of War is a 1977 memoir by Philip Caputo [1] about his service in the United States Marine Corps (USMC) in the early years of the Vietnam War.
- Sales Rank: #1670832 in Books
- Published on: 1977
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Hardcover
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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful.
Gripping Account at the Grunt Level
By Russell V. Olson Jr.
As a Vietnam veteran and 30-year Army officer, I was slightly conflicted while reading “A Rumor of War.” Caputo gives a detailed, grippingly realistic, and honest account of what combat was like at the small platoon level during the Vietnam War in 1965 - 1966. He does not pull any punches in leveling criticism for mistakes in the war. He also does not cover-up his shortcomings as a marine platoon leader as noted when he lost control of his men in a rampage and when he lost control of himself and sent out a patrol with implicit orders to “assassinate” two suspected Viet Cong. He and five of his marines were court-martialed for the second incident but were found not guilty. I was troubled by his conduct in this “murder” and the subsequent investigation.
While I am proud of my Vietnam service, I am not proud of the pressure that senior leaders put on their subordinates to achieve high body counts. Such pressure led to incidents like those depicted by Caputo.
I wish that Caputo had spent just a bit more time on the last month of the Saigon regime while he was a correspondent for the Chicago Tribune.
My only regret in reading this frank account is that I had not read it earlier.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful.
A classic indeed. Very highly recommended
By Timothy J. Bazzett
A RUMOR OF WAR, by Philip Caputo.
This is a RE-read for me. I first read Caputo's Vietnam war memoir more than 35 years ago, in a mass market paperback edition, when it was still a pretty new book. Then it was just a very popular and bestselling book. This time I read it in a 1996 Holt Paperback edition, with a front cover caption calling it "The Classic Vietnam Memoir." And it has certainly earned this title, still in print, still much-read. One of the lines I remembered was a comment from a seasoned Korean War veteran, who told the young Lieutenant Caputo - "Before you leave here, sir, you're going to learn that one of the most brutal things in the world is your average nineteen-year-old American boy." And in the madness and heat of combat, young Caputo learned this to be too true. Indeed, he even discovered some of that brutality in himself.
One especially affecting section of the narrative depicts the time that Caputo spent as "Officer in Charge of the Dead," and the fevered, too-real nightmares that went with that job. Another is the unsettling, inebriated feeling he experiences during R&R in Saigon, a feeling that he suddenly realizes is no more than freedom from fear. Similarly, near the end of his tour, he feels it again when he becomes, at least temporarily, indifferent to death.
"It was not a feeling of invincibility; indifference, rather. I had ceased to fear death because I had ceased to care about it. Certainly I had no illusions that my death, if it came, would be a sacrifice. It would merely be a death, and not a good one either ... There were no good deaths in the war."
The real insanity of the war is perhaps best illustrated in Caputo's being brought up on murder charges for a patrol and 'snatch' of suspected VC's he helped to plan. By that time he was not simply indifferent, he was angry, and he could no longer stomach the war.
The flat numbness that was felt by so many veterans of the Vietnam war is well summed up with the final lines of Caputo's story as he takes off on a flight out of Vietnam, bound for home -
"None of us was a hero. We would not return to cheering crowds, parades, and the pealing of great cathedral bells. We had done nothing more than endure. We had survived, and that was our only victory."
Philip Caputo is a fine writer, and yes, this is "The classic Vietnam memoir." Very highly recommended.
- Tim Bazzett, author of the Cold War memoir, SOLDIER BOY: AT PLAY IN THE ASA
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
RMD - Rumor of War
By r.doolittle
Every single person in existence should read this book! So much of the Vietnam era is misunderstood. I was discharged from the Army right at the end of Vietnam era ( didn't not go to Vietnam), but,I did protest against the War. And remember, which this generation does understand, the fighting in Vietnam was not considered by the Politicians to be a War!! Why? Why was a conflict as Vietnam was, was not considered a War? Because after President Kennedy was murdered by The Industrialists, (with CIA and NSA help), of this country (USA) a cash cow was created. If Vietnam was concerned to be a War we would have to fight it like a War. Veterans would have to receive the benefits of a War (Medical, and Mental Health, etc) but with a Vietnam Conflict the USA didn't have to do that. Instead all the money could be spent of the War Machine (i.e. Helicopters, Air Planes). This author actually experienced the results of such a political policies.
This book just by his experiences bring out the Truth of the Vietnam War. After you read it have your High Schoolers read it. Don't let History repeat itself.
Just my opinion.
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