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Caputo, Philip
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Philip Caputo
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Philip Caputo
A rumor of war by Philip Caputo (
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64
editions published
between
1977
and
2008
in
5
languages
and held by
2,837
libraries
worldwide
The author recounts his experiences during the sixteen months he spent as a Marine infantry officer in the Vietnam war.
Acts of faith by Philip Caputo (
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10
editions published
between
2005
and
2006
in
英语
and held by
1,683
libraries
worldwide
This epic novel, based on the author's own experiences in Africa, tells the stories of pilots, aid workers, missionaries, and renegades struggling to relieve the misery wrought by the civil war in Sudan. The hearts of these men and women are in the right place, but as they plunge into a well of moral corruption for which they are ill-prepared, their hidden flaws conspire with circumstances to turn their strengths--bravery, compassion, daring, and empathy--into weaknesses. In pursuit of noble ends, they make ethical compromises; their altruism curdles into self-righteous zealotry and greed, entangling them in a web of conspiracies that leads, finally, to murder. A few, however, escape the moral trap and find redemption in the discovery that firm convictions can blind the best-intentioned man or woman to the difference between right and wrong.--From publisher description.
Horn of Africa : a novel by Philip Caputo (
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18
editions published
between
1980
and
2005
in
5
languages
and held by
1,561
libraries
worldwide
Gage, Colfax, and Nordstrand smuggle arms into the Horn of Africa to train a rebellious Moslem tribe. In this harsh land Colfax abandons the others.
The voyage by Philip Caputo (
图书
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10
editions published
between
1999
and
2001
in
英语
and held by
1,495
libraries
worldwide
At the turn of the century, a Maine fisherman sends his three sons to sea in June, with orders not to return before September. A woman descendant of the family recounts the boys' adventure in their schooner-- storms, shipwreck, murder--as well as the father's motive and the mystery of the mother's absence.
10, 000 days of thunder : a history of the Vietnam War by Philip Caputo (
图书
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3
editions published
between
2005
and
2007
in
英语
and held by
1,458
libraries
worldwide
It was the war that lasted ten thousand days. The war that inspired scores of songs. The war that sparked dozens of riots. And in this stirring chronicle, Pulitzer Prize- winning journalist Philip Caputo writes about our country's most controversial war -- the Vietnam War -- for young readers. From the first stirrings of unrest in Vietnam under French colonial rule, to American intervention, to the battle at Hamburger Hill, to the Tet Offensive, to the fall of Saigon, 10,000 Days of Thunder explores the war that changed the lives of a generation of Americans and that still reverberates with us today. Included within 10,000 Days of Thunder are personal anecdotes from soldiers and civilians, as well as profiles and accounts of the actions of many historical luminaries, both American and Vietnamese, involved in the Vietnam War, such as Richard M. Nixon, General William C. Westmoreland, Ho Chi Minh, Joe Galloway, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Lyndon B. Johnson, and General Vo Nguyen Giap. Caputo also explores the rise of Communism in Vietnam, the roles that women played on the battlefield, the antiwar movement at home, the participation of Vietnamese villagers in the war, as well as the far-reaching impact of the war's aftermath.
Crossers by Philip Caputo (
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12
editions published
between
2009
and
2010
in
英语
and held by
1,413
libraries
worldwide
In a tale inspired by the brutality and beauty of life on the Arizona-Mexico border, September 11 widower Gil Castle finds his efforts to heal challenged by dark truths about his fearsome grandfather and retaliations against an act of kindness.
Indian country by Philip Caputo (
图书
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15
editions published
between
1987
and
2004
in
英语 and 尚未决定
and held by
1,353
libraries
worldwide
Explores the aftermath of the Vietnam war to reveal the heart and mind of a single soldier who returns to the States shattered by his experience in Southeast Asia.
DelCorso's gallery by Philip Caputo (
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19
editions published
between
1983
and
2001
in
4
languages
and held by
1,183
libraries
worldwide
Equation for evil : a novel by Philip Caputo (
图书
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8
editions published
between
1996
and
2004
in
英语
and held by
1,158
libraries
worldwide
After a busload of Asian children is massacred and the killer commits suicide, two California investigators are assigned to perform a psychological autopsy. They are Dr. Leander Heartwood, a white forensic psychiatrist, and Gabriel Chin, an Asian agent of the state's justice department. They uncover evidence the killer was acting for another and proceed to look for him.
Means of escape by Philip Caputo (
图书
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14
editions published
between
1991
and
2002
in
英语
and held by
1,124
libraries
worldwide
The story of a foreign correspondent covering wars in Vietnam, the Middle East, and Afghanistan.
Ghosts of Tsavo : stalking the mystery lions of East Africa by Philip Caputo (
图书
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4
editions published
in
2002
in
英语
and held by
914
libraries
worldwide
The author describes his experiences during an expedition to East Africa to uncover the secrets of a near-mythical breed of man-eating lions, as they attempt to prove that these unique, maneless lions are direct descendants of their prehistoric ancestors.
Exiles : three short novels by Philip Caputo (
图书
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7
editions published
between
1997
and
1998
in
英语 and 尚未决定
and held by
897
libraries
worldwide
A trio of novellas. In Standing In, an elderly couple adopt a young man who resembles their dead son, but the adoption does not work out, Paradise traces the impact of a shipwrecked stranger on a remote island, and In the Forest of the Laughing Elephant soldiers mount an operation during the Vietnam War to rescue a soldier who has been carried off by a tiger. By the author of A Rumor of War.
A rumor of war : with a twentieth anniversary postscript by the author by Philip Caputo (
图书
)
7
editions published
between
1996
and
1997
in
英语
and held by
766
libraries
worldwide
In March of 1965, Marine Lieutenant Philip J. Caputo landed at Danang with the first ground combat unit committed to fight in Vietnam. Sixteen months later, having served on the line in one of modern history's ugliest wars, he returned home--physically whole, emotionally wasted, his youthful idealism shattered. A decade later, Caputo would write in A Rumor of War, "This is simply a story about war, about the things men do in war and the things war does to them." It was far more than that. It was, as Theodore Solotaroff wrote in The New York Times Book Review, "the troubled conscience of America speaking passionately, truthfully, finally." It was the book that shattered America's deliberate indifference to the fate of the men it sent to fight in the jungles of Vietnam, and in the years since it was first published it has become a basic text on that war. But in the literature of war that stretches back to Homer, it has also taken its place as an esteemed classic. As William Broyles--himself a decorated Marine veteran of Vietnam--wrote in Texas Monthly, "Not since Siegfried Sassoon's classic of World War I, Memoirs of an Infantry Officer, has there been a war memoir so obviously true, and so disturbingly honest."
13 seconds : a look back at the Kent State shootings by Philip Caputo (
图书
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3
editions published
in
2005
in
英语
and held by
740
libraries
worldwide
Recounts the events surrounding the May 4th, 1970 shooting and the investigations that followed, discussing the impact the event has had on the families and friends of the killed and injured students and on the university.
In the shadows of the morning : essays on wild lands, wild waters, and a few untamed people by Philip Caputo (
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4
editions published
between
2002
and
2004
in
英语
and held by
273
libraries
worldwide
A rumor of war(
visu
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8
editions published
between
1977
and
1995
in
英语 and 无语言内容
and held by
97
libraries
worldwide
A tragic story of an American youth who is sent to Vietnam and later charged with the murder of two Vietnamese civilians.
The Century America's time. 12, Approaching the apocalypse(
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1
edition published
in
1999
in
英语
and held by
50
libraries
worldwide
The one bright spot of the 1970's was Nixon's opening of China to the West while the riots at Attica prison and Kent State University, the trauma of the war in Vietnam and the Watergate scandal, left Americans exhausted, embittered and disillusioned. This program appraises the effects of those blights on the political landscape and their impact on the trust between the government and the governed, so vital to the well-being of a representative democracy such as the United States.
Ghosts of Tsavo by Philip Caputo (
图书
)
7
editions published
between
2002
and
2006
in
3
languages
and held by
46
libraries
worldwide
Among the man-eaters by Philip Caputo (
图书
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1
edition published
in
2001
in
英语
and held by
38
libraries
worldwide
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