Philip Caputo - A Rumor of War (1977)

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War, the ordinary man's most convenient means of escaping from the ordinary.

Philip Caputo

Our mission was not to win terrain, or seize positions, but simply to kill: to kill Communists and to kill as many of them as possible. Stack 'em like cordwood. Victory was a high body-count, defeat a low kill-ratio, war a matter of arithmetic.

Philip Caputo

You're going to learn that one of the most brutal things in the world is your average nineteen-year-old American boy.

Philip Caputo