New York, NY: Holt, Reinhart and Winston (1977)

First Edition. Advanced reader. Signed.

Very good in plain, tan wrappers. Toning to the spine with a slit bend in the front right corner. Otherwise very fine copy for its age.
Very rare signed copy.

On the occasion of its fortieth anniversary, the classic Vietnam memoir A Rumor of War, hailed as “a singular and marvelous work” by The New York Times, is now available with a new introduction.

In March of 1965, Marine Lieutenent 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 history’s ugliest wars, he returned home—physically whole but emotionally wasted, his youthful idealism forever gone.

A Rumor of War is far more than one soldier’s story. Upon its publication is 1977, it shattered America’s indifference to the fate of the men sent to fight in the jungles of Vietnam. In the years since then, it has become not only a basic text on the Vietnam War, but also a renowned classic in the literature of wars throughout history and, as the author says, of “the things men do in war and the things was does to men.”