Throughout the book we see his firsthand account of the boredom and bravery, the sacrifice and fear, and the savagery yet communion of men at war.
Caputo’s idealism is tempered with ambivalence about a war where the climate acted as much as an enemy as booby traps and Viet Cong. A Rumor of War by Philip Caputo includes a prologue in which the author tells us that his book is “simply about war, about the things men do in war, and the things that war does to them.” As it turns out, these “things” are fairly significant for they change Caputo from a young, enthusiastic Marine filled with idealism into a tired, cynical and disillusioned war veteran.
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