Philip Caputo, Who Wrote Blistering Vietnam War Memoir, Dies at 84

A Rumor of War,” about his service as a Marine Corps infantry officer and published in 1977, relentlessly detailed “the ...

Remembering Philip Caputo, who wrote an unflinching Vietnam War memoir

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 ...
Florida Keys Weekly Newspapers

PHILIP CAPUTO: AUTHOR, WAR REPORTER & FORMER KEY WESTER, DIES AT 84

By Marc Caputo Philip Caputo never wanted it to end this way: peacefully and in his own home. He hoped to die in the manner in which he lived — dramatically and with panache — as a writer, adventurer, ...
The Manila Times on MSN

'A Rumor of War' author Philip Caputo dies - son

WASHINGTON, United States — 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. Caputo ...