Philip Caputo

He was shot and wounded in the feet by a militiaman with an AK-47 during the Battle of the Hotels in Lebanon in 1975. The book was made into a two-part TV movie starring Brad Davis Keith Carradine Brian Dennehy and Michael O'Keefe in 1980. Books and Articles
Philip Caputo's acclaimed memoir of Vietnam A Rumor of War has been publiPhilip Caputod in 15 languages has sold two million copies since its publication in 1977 and is widely regarded as a classic in the literature of war.

His latest the nonfiction travel/adventure book The Longest Road: Overland In Search of America from Key West to the Arctic Ocean is to be publiPhilip Caputod in July 2013 by Henry Holt. He is best known for A Rumor of War a best-selling memoir of his experiences during the Vietnam War. Philip Caputo (born June 10 1941) is an American author and journalist.