A Rumor of War Author:Caputo, Philip "A close up look at the American experience in the Vietnam War... powerful, vivid, compassionate ... One of the greatest books about war I have ever read!" Cleveland Plain Dealer — Beyond the blame and sorrow, beyond politics, and strategy and national interests .. It is about camaraderie, death, courage, fear, high ideals, lost convictions, the ... more »best and the worst in the most ordinary of men. It is simply a story of war, of the things men do in war, and the things war does to them.« less