
A RUMOR OF WAR
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Ballantine, New York, 1986, 24th 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)