Philip Caputo, Who Wrote Blistering Vietnam War Memoir, Dies at 84
Philip Caputo, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist whose best-selling, disillusioning memoir, “A Rumor of War,” about main a Marine platoon via the sniper-riddled and booby-trapped jungles of Vietnam, entered the canon of wartime literature, died on Thursday at his dwelling in Norwalk, Conn. He was 84. The trigger was most cancers, his son Marc Caputo wrote…
