Critical Essay by Theodore Solotaroff
["A Rumor of War," Caputo's personal account of the Vietnam War, is] the true story of the transformation of one of "the knights of C...
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Critical Essay by William Styron
One of the indispensable features of Caputo's narrative [A Rumor of War] is that he is never less than honest, sometimes relentlessly so, about his feelings co...
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Critical Essay by D. Keith Mano
What can be said? This is the hardest review I have ever had to write. Okay: there are three options. I can hang it up now, at sentence four. Or I can tell you that A ...
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Critical Essay by The Virginia Quarterly Review
It is difficult to know where to begin an analysis of [A Rumor of War, a] first-rate memoir of a Marine lieutenant's experience with war. It is ...
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Critical Essay by D. Keith Mano
Philip Caputo last wrote A Rumor of War; indisputably the most consequential and terrific Vietnam memoir: alone, it almost made our involvement there worthwhile. Still...
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Critical Essay by R. Z. Sheppard
Philip Caputo (A Rumor of War, Horn of Africa) is one of the more successful enhancers of the factual, largely because he writes intensely about his own experiences, ...
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Critical Essay by Theodore Solotaroff
