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Philip Caputo (born June 10, 1941) is an American author and journalist. He is best known for A Rumor of War (1977), a best-selling memoir of his experiences during the Vietnam War . Caputo has written 18 books, including three memoirs, five books of general nonfiction, nine novels, and one book of short stories.
In the foreword, Caputo makes clear that this is not a history book, nor is it a historical accusation; it is a story about war, based on his experience. The first section "The Splendid Little War", describes Lieutenant Philip Caputo's reasons for joining the United States Marine Corps (USMC), the training that followed and his arrival in ...
A Rumor of War. (miniseries) A Rumor of War is a 1980 television miniseries, based on the 1977 autobiography by Philip Caputo about his service in the United States Marine Corps in the early years of American involvement in the Vietnam War. It was one of the earliest serious US works of television or film drama to be based on US combat ...
The Vietnam War is a 10-part American television documentary series about the Vietnam War produced and directed by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, written by Geoffrey C. Ward, and narrated by Peter Coyote. [1][2][3] The first episode premiered on PBS on September 17, 2017. This series is one of the few PBS series to carry a TV-MA rating.
Former marine officer and later war-time correspondent Philip Caputo in the book A Rumor of War noted: General Westmoreland's strategy of attrition also had an important effect on our behavior. Our mission was not to win terrain or seize positions, but simply to kill: to kill communists and as many of them as possible. Stack 'em like cordwood.
Appearance. move to sidebarhide. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. A Rumor of Warmay refer to: A Rumor of War (book) A Rumor of War (miniseries) Topics referred to by the same term. This disambiguationpage lists articles associated with the title A Rumor of War.
Capote is a 2005 American biographical drama film about American novelist Truman Capote directed by Bennett Miller, and starring Philip Seymour Hoffman in the title role. The film primarily follows the events during the writing of Capote's 1965 nonfiction book In Cold Blood. The film was based on Gerald Clarke's 1988 biography Capote. It was ...
Philip Caputo (class of 1959) is an author (A Rumor of War) and Pulitzer Prize winning reporter for coverage of Chicago election fraud. [36] [37] Patrick Creadon (class of 1985) is a documentary filmmaker (Wordplay, I.O.U.S.A., Catholics vs Convicts), and has twice been nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival. [38]