Equation for Evil

Philip Caputo

Bourbon Street Books

In March 1965, Marine Lieutnant Philip J. Caputo landed in Danang with the first ground combat unit committed to fight in Vietnam. Sixteen months later, having served on the line in one of modern history's ugliest wars, he returned home - physically whole, emotionally wasted, his youthful idealism shattered. A decade later, Caputo would write in A Rumor of War, 'This is simply a story about war, about the things men do in war and the things war does to them'. It is far more then that. It is, as Theodore Solotaroff wrote in the New York Times Book Review, 'the troubled conscience of America speaking passionately, truthfully, finally'. It is the book that shattered America's deliberate indifference to the fate of the men it sent to fight in the jungles of Vietnam, and in the years since it was first published it has become a basic text on that war. But in the literature of war that stretches back to Homer, it has also taken its place as an esteemed classic to rank alongside All Quiet on the Western Front and The Naked and the Dead.

A Rumor of War

Engineering & Transportation

Engineering

Arrow Books, Ltd.

In March 1965, Marine Lieutenant Philip J. Caputo landed in Danang in Vietnam. Sixteen months later, having served on the line in one of modern history's ugliest wars, he returned home - physically whole, emotionally wasted, his youthful idealism shattered. A decade later, Caputo would write in A Rumor of War.

Rumour Of War Caputo

Pan/Macmillan

<p>In this truly multifaceted presentation of the conflict, both on the front lines and on the homefront, Caputo has produced what is at once an overview and a sensitive, resonant picture of the war as seen and experienced by American soldiers, the Viet Cong, North Vietnamese guerrillas, and the citizens of both South Vietnam and the United States. Covering the period from the rise of Bolshevism in Russia in the early 20th century to the American normalization of relations with Vietnam in 1995, it's an ideal source for both information and understanding. Beginning with an affecting introduction, the author then gives a history of communism and the origins of the war. Following this, the American involvement in Vietnam is traced in numerous two- to four-page sections dealing with various aspects of the conflict, such as the Viet Cong, the Ho Chi Minh Trail and the DMZ, and the draft. Each section has a quick facts box that highlights the main issues surrounding each topic. Caputo's prose is clear and direct, and the award-winning photos, both black and white and color, add an immediacy that sets this title apart from more conventional treatments. The glossary is detailed and informative, and the bibliography is a veritable gold mine of sound sources. This is the book of choice for libraries serving today's students.</p>

10,000 Days of Thunder: A History of the Vietnam War

History

Americas

Scholastic. Inc.

<p>1898, Tsavo River Kenya, the British Empire has employed 140 workers to build a railroad bridge. The bridge's construction comes to a violent halt when two maneless lions devour all 140 workers in a savage feeding frenzy that would make headlines›and history—all over the world. Caputo's Ghosts of Tsavo is a new quest for truth about the origins of these near-mythical animals and how they became predators of human flesh.</p>

Ghosts of Tsavo: Tracking the Mythic Lions of East Africa

Science & Math

Biological Sciences

National Geographic

10,000 Days Of Thunder A History Of The Vietnam War

Atheneum New York

In March of 1965, Marine Lieutenant 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 in 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 writes, of “the things men do in war and the things war does to men.”  “To call it the best book about Vietnam is to trivialize it. . . . A Rumor of War is a dangerous and even subversive book, the first to insist ― and the insistence is all the more powerful because it is implicit ― that the reader ask himself these questions: How would I have acted? To what lengths would I have gone to survive? The sense of self is assaulted, overcome, subverted, leaving the reader to contemplate the deadening possibility that his own moral safety net might have a hole in it. It is a terrifying thought, and A Rumor of War is a terrifying book.” ― John Gregory Dunne, Los Angeles Times Book Review  “Caputo’s troubled, searching meditations on the love and hate of war, on fear, and the ambivalent discord warfare can create in the hearts of decent men, are among the most eloquent I have read in modern literature.” - William Styron, The New York Review of Books

Rumor of War, A

Biographies & Memoirs

Leaders & Notable People

BRILLIANCE AUDIO ^

Eyewitness Battlefield Stories from Photographers and Journalists.

We Were There

James Jones

david-halberstam

Neil Sheehan

john-steinbeck

Arnett

Blackdog & Leventhal

For more than a decade, American soldiers fought an unpredictable, unspeakably painful battle in the fields, cities, town, and rivers of Vietnam. Three American presidents held office during that time and thousands upon thousands of lives were lost. The Vietnam War is one of the most heatedly debated conflicts in history. Yet, for the troops who were there, it was an interminable march of long, hot days, filled with destruction, exhaustion, and fear. We Were There: Vietnam chronicles those long years of war from the perspectives of soldiers who fought in daily battle and the reporters and photographers who recorded events alongside them It includes essays from such literary luminaries as John Steinbeck, and James Jones; accounts from Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists David Halberstam, Peter Arnett, and Malcolm Brown; and searing photographs from Pulitzer Prize-winner Horst Fass and others. In its immediacy and intensity, this visual account is unlike any other chronicle of war. We Were There is a carefully researched collection of words and images that provides a unique view of the Vietnam War; deeply personal memories from those who experienced the agony and profound frustration of the day-to-day conflict firsthand.

We Were There, Vietnam: Eyewitness Battlefield Stories

Peter Arnett

Military

Tess_Press

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