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Philip Caputo

Auteur de Le bruit de la guerre

22+ oeuvres 4,434 utilisateurs 114 critiques 6 Favoris

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Philip Caputo was born on June 10, 1941 in Chicago, Illinois. He received a B.A. from Loyola University in 1964. He served in the U.S. Marine Corps from 1964 to 1967. His first book, A Rumor of War (1977), recounts his military tour of Vietnam. He has written more than fifteen books including Horn afficher plus of Africa, Indian Country, Equation for Evil, Crossers, and The Longest Road. His journalism career began in 1968, when he joined the staff of the Chicago Tribune, serving as a general assignment and team investigative reporter until 1972 and then as a foreign correspondent for the next five years. In 1972 he and Hugh Jones received a Pulitzer Prize for their coverage of election fraud in the primaries. He has also written for the New York Times, Washington Post, the Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Times, and many other publications. He has worked as a screenwriter for Paramount Pictures and Michael Douglas Productions. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
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Reporting Vietnam: American Journalism 1969-1975, Volume 2 (1998) — Contributeur — 269 exemplaires
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Heart of the Land: Essays on Last Great Places (1994) — Contributeur — 106 exemplaires
The New Great American Writers' Cookbook (2003) — Contributeur — 21 exemplaires

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I have had Philip Caputo's A Rumor of War, on my bookshelf and TBR pile for year and having just finished it, I have to say it was a compelling story. A Memoir of one man's experience in Vietnam, we here from Lt. Philip Caputo in his own words.

Landing in Danang withe Marine in 1965, Caputo tells of us of his thrill of being part of his "splendid little war." By the end of his tour he has been leading a platoon 2 different time, in between being a staff officer and at the end of his term again being a staff officer. He and his men had been accused and tried for the murder of two South Vietnamese, a murder which he men were later acquitted for and he having the most serious charges dropped. He blamed both himself and the war this "atrocity.", not shirking from responsibility but trying to place a greater understanding of being in the field for an extended time in Vietnam.

An excellent book of one man's perspective of his service in Vietnam from the highs to the lows with a brief epilogue of his post military life.

A must read.
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dsha67 | 24 autres critiques | Apr 24, 2024 |
#704 in our old book database. Not rated.
 
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villemezbrown | 4 autres critiques | Apr 20, 2024 |
Not Caputo's best but still worth reading. 3.5
 
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ben_r47 | 3 autres critiques | Feb 22, 2024 |
Caputo knows Vietnam, he knows the war.
 
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ben_r47 | 24 autres critiques | Feb 22, 2024 |

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