A Rumor of War by Philip Caputo (1978)Mass Market Paperback in Very Good (VG) condition. "This book is not a work of the imagination. The events related are true, the characters real, though I have used fictitious names in some places. I have tried to describe accurately what the dominant even in the life of my generation, the Vietnam War, was like for the men who fought in it." In 1965, Marine Lieutenant Philip Caputo began his three year enlistment as a member of the first ground combat