false 15509 5 1 A Rumor of War, a best-selling memoir of his experiences during the Vietnam War.
]]> male 1941/06/10 110759 0712664459 9780712664455 86 <![CDATA[A Rumor of War]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171644416m/110759.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171644416s/110759.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/110759.A_Rumor_of_War 4.04 661 15509 3.92 1573 291 1977 27588 0375725970 9780375725975 127 <![CDATA[Acts of Faith]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167881901m/27588.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167881901s/27588.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27588.Acts_of_Faith 3.88 520
As their fates intersect and our understanding of their characters deepens, it becomes apparent that Acts of Faith is one of those rare novels that combine high moral seriousness with irresistible narrative wizardry.   ]]> 15509 3.92 1573 291 2005 446974 0679768394 9780679768395 13 <![CDATA[The Voyage: A Novel]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174852143m/446974.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174852143s/446974.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/446974.The_Voyage_A_Novel 4.06 51 Adventures are slow to shape themselves at first, but once the Braithwaite boys enlist the help of blond, worldly wise Yale dropout Will Terhune, the pace quickens considerably. Nat, who serves as skipper, and is also the most naive and most ambitious of the brothers, nearly dies in a bar fight in lower Manhattan. Fourteen-year-old Drew, the seasick-prone family rationalist, discovers a penchant for cold-blooded violence. Caught in a blow off the Carolinas, the boys limp the damaged schooner into Beaufort, South Carolina, their mother's birthplace, where an ancient aunt invites them to dinner and hints darkly at family secrets. Then, about two-thirds of the way in, what has seemed a leisurely coming-of-age story explodes into an elemental drama as a hurricane swallows the boat and spits it out on the desolate coast of Cuba. This, as it turns out, is but the first in a series of terrible reversals.

The Voyage is a departure for Caputo, a former foreign correspondent who made his name with a Vietnam memoir (A Rumor of War), and he does a fine job of conjuring up an age "when both the awareness of death and the hope of salvation were writ on every face." True, his framing device of a present-day Braithwaite descendant delving into her family's secret history is a bit forced and yes, the characters could use more depth. No matter. At some point, The Voyage becomes irresistible. --David Laskin

]]> 15509 3.92 1573 291 1999 446977 0375725113 9780375725111 8 <![CDATA[Horn of Africa: A Novel]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174852145m/446977.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174852145s/446977.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/446977.Horn_of_Africa_A_Novel 3.58 33 Horn of Africa is a vividly detailed and masterfully plotted novel chronicling a broken man’s struggle for salvation and inner freedom in the midst of a broken nation’s fight for stability and peace.]]> 15509 3.92 1573 291 1980 279119 0375725105 9780375725104 4 <![CDATA[Indian Country]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173376087m/279119.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173376087s/279119.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/279119.Indian_Country 3.76 25 Indian Country is a sweeping, brave and compassionate story from one of our most acclaimed chroniclers of the Vietnam experience.
Christian Starkmann follows his boyhood friend, an Ojibwa Indian called Bonny George, from the wilderness of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, where they roamed, hunted and fished in their youths, to the wilderness of Vietnam, where they serve as soldiers in the same platoon. After returning home from the war, his friend buried on the battlefield he left behind, Christian begins to make a life for himself. Yet years later, although he is happily married to June, a good-hearted social worker, and has two daughters, Christian is still fighting--with the searing memories of combat, with the paranoid visions that are clouding his marriage and threatening his career, and most of all with the ghost of Bonny George, who haunts his dreams and presses him to come to terms with a secret so powerful it could destroy everything he has built.]]> 15509 3.92 1573 291 1987 6593158 0375411674 9780375411670 6 <![CDATA[Crossers]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255576175m/6593158.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255576175s/6593158.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6593158-crossers 3.80 20 Acts of Faith (“A miracle . . . You can hardly conceive of a more affecting reading experience”—Houston Chronicle), a blistering new novel about the brutality and beauty of life on the Arizona-Mexico border and about the unyielding power of the past to shape our lives. Taking us from the turn of the twentieth century to our present day, from the impoverished streets of rural Mexico to the manicured lawns of suburban Connecticut, from the hot and dusty air of an isolated ranch to New York City in the wake of 9/11, Caputo gives us an impeccably crafted story about three generations of an Arizona family forced to confront the violence and loss that have become its inheritance.

When Gil Castle loses his wife in the Twin Tower attacks, he retreats to his family’s sprawling homestead in a remote corner of the Southwest. Consumed by grief, he has to find a way to live with his loss in this strange, forsaken part of the country, where drug lords have more power than police and violence is a constant presence. But it is also a world of vast open spaces, where Castle begins to rebuild his belief in the potential for happiness—until he starts to uncover the dark truths about his fearsome grandfather, a legacy that has been tightly shrouded in mystery in the years since the old man’s death.

When Miguel Espinoza shows up at the ranch, terrified after two friends were murdered in a border-crossing drug deal gone bad, Castle agrees to take him in. Yet his act of generosity sets off a flood of violence and vengeance, a fierce reminder of the fact that while he may be able to reinvent himself, he may never escape his history.

Searingly dramatic, bold and timely, Crossers is Philip Caputo’s most ambitious and brilliantly realized novel yet.]]> 15509 3.92 1573 291 2009 559273 0375725091 9780375725098 3 <![CDATA[DelCorso's Gallery]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175795984m/559273.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175795984s/559273.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/559273.DelCorso_s_Gallery 3.45 20 A Rumor of War is widely considered among the best ever written about the experience of war.

At thirty-three, Nick DelCorso is an award-winning war photographer who has seen action and dodged bullets all over the world–most notably in Vietnam, where he served as an Army photographer and recorded combat scenes whose horrors have not yet faded in his memory. When he is called back to Vietnam on assignment during a North Vietnamese attempt to take Saigon, he is faced with a defining choice: should he honor the commitment he has made to his wife not to place himself in any more danger for the sake of his career, or follow his ambition back to the war-torn land that still haunts his dreams? What follows is a riveting story of war on two fronts, Saigon and Beirut, that will test DelCorso’s faith not only in himself, but in the nobler instincts of men. ]]> 15509 3.92 1573 291 1983 694085 1585747378 9781585747375 2 <![CDATA[Means Of Escape: A War Correspondent's Memoir of Life and Death in Afghanistan, the Middle East, and Vietnam]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1177331075m/694085.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1177331075s/694085.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/694085.Means_Of_Escape_A_War_Correspondent_s_Memoir_of_Life_and_Death_in_Afghanistan_the_Middle_East_and_Vietnam 4.27 15 A Rumor of War recounts his harrowing tales of life as a foreign correspondent. (SEE QUOTE.)
</div>]]> 15509 3.92 1573 291 1991 723996 1596090804 9781596090804 3 <![CDATA[13 Seconds: A Look Back at the Kent State Shootings]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1177646808m/723996.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1177646808s/723996.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/723996.13_Seconds_A_Look_Back_at_the_Kent_State_Shootings 3.50 14 A Rumor of War, returns to the turbulent era of the late 1960s with 13 Seconds: A Look Back at the Kent State Shootings. Caputo carefully sets the stage for the tragedy--the gunning-down of students on the Kent State, Ohio, campus--as he shows the pressures slowly building: Richard Nixon's decision to invade Cambodia, the militaristic missives of the ultra-leftist Weathermen, and statements such as high-profile California governor Ronald Reagan's declaration about student protests, given three weeks before the shootings ("If it takes a bloodbath, let's get it over with").

While important events surge and roil throughout the book like massive currents, Caputo focuses primarily on the smaller stories of the students injured and killed by National Guard bullets. Caputo, a journalist then writing for the Chicago Tribune (and who went on to win the Pulitzer Prize in 1972), was on the scene soon after the shootings took place. He writes with immediacy, clearly drawn back to the moment even after 35 years have passed. Some of the students who died that day were active in campus politics, while others were caught purely by misfortune, but all paid an incredible price. By allowing readers to understand more about the students and the circumstances that surrounded May 4, 1970, Caputo turns the story of Kent State into a kind of tragic novel. The book itself is short: under 200 pages, including summaries of court testimonies that make up the bulk of the index. But the poignancy of what America lost that day comes through clearly in Caputo's dense, no-nonsense writing. --Jennifer Buckendorff

]]> 15509 3.92 1573 291 2005 379348 0689862318 9780689862311 6 <![CDATA[10,000 Days of Thunder: A History of the Vietnam War]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174319968m/379348.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174319968s/379348.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/379348.10_000_Days_of_Thunder_A_History_of_the_Vietnam_War 3.90 10 10,000 Days of Thunder explores the war that changed the lives of a generation of Americans and that still reverberates with us today.

Included within 10,000 Days of Thunder are personal anecdotes from soldiers and civilians, as well as profiles and accounts of the actions of many historical luminaries, both American and Vietnamese, involved in the Vietnam War, such as Richard M. Nixon, General William C. Westmoreland, Ho Chi Minh, Joe Galloway, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Lyndon B. Johnson, and General Vo Nguyen Giap. Caputo also explores the rise of Communism in Vietnam, the roles that women played on the battlefield, the antiwar movement at home, the participation of Vietnamese villagers in the war, as well as the far-reaching impact of the war's aftermath.

Caputo's dynamic narrative is highlighted by stunning photographs and key campaign and battlefield maps, making 10,000 Days of Thunder THE consummate book on the Vietnam War for kids.

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