A review by gingerrachelle
A Rumor of War by Philip Caputo

2.0

As a rule, I don't read "war" books. I read books set during war usually the civil war. This is the first official war memoir that I've read and I don't really know how to rate it. I didn't like it but it's about war so... Anyway, I really found myself feeling some kind of way about the author saying he basically signed up to go to Vietnam because it sounded romantic and he was bored with his dull suburban life. I think he uses romantic to describe war half a dozen or more times.
Also, there is a line in the book that says " a nervously energetic black named McClellan." So even if the rest of this book had been next level awesome I would never have been able to get over that line.
A Black! A Black! Like yo!