Washoe County Library System

In March of 1965, Lieutenant Philip J. Caputo landed at Danang with the first ground combat unit deployed to Vietnam. Sixteen months later, having served on the line in one of modern historys ugliest wars, he returned homephysically whole but emotionally wasted, his youthful idealism forever gone.A Rumor of War is far more than one soldiers story. Upon its publication in 1977, it shattered Americas indifference to the fate of the men sent to fight...