{"product_id":"a-rumor-of-war-9780712664455","title":"A Rumor of War","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 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 historys 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 Americas deliberate indifference to the fact 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67904779976757,"sku":"ByrdShop_0712664459","price":312.11,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780712664455.jpg?v=1793852296","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/a-rumor-of-war-9780712664455","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}