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Former journalist and Pulitzer Prize-winner Philip Caputo, best known for his memoirs as a US Marine officer in the Vietnam War, has died, his son said. He was 84.

Whatever antagonism one feels for government leaders who launched the Iran War, don't transfer such negativity to the men and women waging it.

This is FRESH AIR. I'm David Bianculli. One of the most unflinching and acclaimed memoirs of the Vietnam War was about a young lieutenant, one of the first Americans to fight in the war, leading a ...

Philip Caputo, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist whose bestselling, disillusioning memoir, “A Rumor of War,” about leading a Marine platoon through the sniper-riddled and booby-trapped jungles of ...

Philip Caputo was a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter and foreign correspondent for the Chicago Tribune before going on to pen bestselling books, including his acclaimed 1977 memoir, “A ...

Philip Caputo wrote the 1977 acclaimed and unflinching memoir ‘A Rumor of War,’ about leading a Marine platoon during the Vietnam War. It taught him a painful truth. “I had discovered that I had a ...

Caputo, who died May 7, wrote the acclaimed 1977 memoir A Rumor of War, about leading a Marine platoon during the Vietnam war. He went on to a career in journalism. Originally broadcast in 2005. This ...