A RUMOR OF WAR

Ballantine, New York, 1986, 24^th pr.  ISBN 0-345-33122-2.  MMPB, 328 pages.  Very good; light edge and cover wear with a bit of age spotting and creases; tight binding; bit of wear at lower spine end.  Interior clean and unmarked with tanned pages.  ‘This book does not pretend to be a history.  It has nothing to do with politics, power, strategy, influence, national interests, or foreign policy; nor is it an indictment of the great men who led us into Indochina and whose mistakes were paid for with the blood of some quite ordinary men.  In a general sense, it is simply a story about war, about the things men do in war and the things war does to them.  More strictly, it is a soldier’s account of our longest conflict, the only one we have ever lost, as well as the record of a long and sometimes painful personal experience.’ (from Prologue)