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Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and Vietnam veteran Caputo (A Rumor of War) pulls no punches in this portrait of the Vietnam War. In his introduction, Caputo movingly depicts the war's impact on him ...

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 ...

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

Three Americans are central to the tale: Douglas Braithwaite, a magnetic but naive and enigmatic young man who establishes Knight Air, which flies relief supplies to Sudan; his partner, Wesley Dare, ...

“A Rumor of War,” about his service as a Marine Corps infantry officer and published in 1977, relentlessly detailed “the things men do in war and the things war does to them.” By Joseph Berger Set in ...

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 ...

Philip P. Caputo, beloved husband of Jennie; loving father of Linda (Dean) Coronato, Laura (Jerry) Brucer and Philip (Roseann); dear grandfather of Dean (Julie) and Anthony (Deanna ) Coronato and ...