A Rumor of War
Philip Caputo • 1977
Devastation Rating
war Vietnam memoir moral injury
Our Take
Caputo arrived in Vietnam believing in duty and left understanding that war is not a test of character but a machine for destroying it. His honesty about his own moral deterioration makes this memoir unbearable and essential. The boy who enlisted does not survive the book.
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