Philip Caputo: 17 books
Means of Escape
A War Correspondent's Memoir of Life and Death in Afghanistan, the Middle East, and Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2009
"A riveting memoir of years of living dangerously."—Kirkus Reviews
For the countless readers who have admired Philip Caputo's classic memoir of Vietnam, A Rumor of War, here is his powerful recounting of his life and adventures, updated with a foreword that assesses the state of...
10,000 Days of Thunder
A History of the Vietnam War
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
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 Longest Road
Overland in Search of America, from Key West to the Arctic Ocean
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
In The Longest Road, one of America's most respected writers takes an epic journey across America, Airstream in tow, and asks everyday Americans what unites and divides a country as endlessly diverse as it is large.
Standing on a wind-scoured island off the Alaskan coast, Philip Caputo marveled...
In the Shadows of the Morning
Essays on Wild Lands, Wild Waters, and a Few Untamed People (Signed by the author)
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
Philip Caputo's passion for travel and adventure was inspired by the works of Joseph Conrad, Jack London, and Herman Melville, and through the years this passion led to a rugged writer's life, filled with hair-raising experiences in the jungles of Vietnam, the rubble of Beirut, and the savannas of Africa....
In the Shadows of the Morning
Essays on Wild Lands, Wild Waters, and a Few Untamed People (Signed by the author)
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
Philip Caputo's passion for travel and adventure was inspired by the works of Joseph Conrad, Jack London, and Herman Melville, and through the years this passion led to a rugged writer's life, filled with hair-raising experiences in the jungles of Vietnam, the rubble of Beirut, and the savannas of...
Some Rise by Sin
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
New York Times bestselling author Philip Caputo tells the story of a Franciscan priest struggling to walk a moral path through the shifting and fatal realities of an isolated Mexican village
The Mexican village of San Patricio is being menaced by a bizarre, cultish drug cartel infamous for...
Hunter's Moon
A Novel in Stories
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2019
"Powerful....Caputo's wisdom runs deep. Few writers have better captured the emotional lives of men." **—**The New York Times Book Review
From Philip Caputo**—the author of A Rumor of War, The Longest Road, and Some Rise By Sin—**comes a captivating mosaic of stories set in a small town...
A Rumor of War
The Classic Vietnam Memoir (40th Anniversary Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
The 40th anniversary edition of the classic Vietnam memoir—featured in the PBS documentary series The Vietnam War by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick—with a new foreword by Kevin Powers
In March of 1965, Lieutenant Philip J. Caputo landed at Danang with the first ground combat unit deployed to...
by Philip Caputo
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2012
A classic novel of Vietnam and its aftermath from Philip Caputo, whose Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir A Rumor of Waris widely considered among the best ever written about the experience of war.
At thirty-three, Nick DelCorso is an award-winning war photographer who has seen action and dodged...
The Voyage
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2009
In the tradition of great seafaring adventures, The Voyage is an intricately plotted, superbly detailed, and gripping story of adventure and courage. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Philip Caputo has written a timeless novel about the dangerous reverberating effects of long held family secrets.
On...
by Philip Caputo
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2005
Philip Caputo’s tragic and epically ambitious new novel is set in Sudan, where war is a permanent condition. Into this desolate theater come aid workers, missionaries, and mercenaries of conscience whose courage and idealism sometimes coexist with treacherous moral blindness. There’s the entrepreneurial...
Ghosts of Tsavo
Stalking the Mystery Lions of East Africa
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2009
1898, Tsavo River Kenya, the British Empire has employed 140 workers to build a railroad bridge. The bridge's construction comes to a violent halt when two maneless lions devour all 140 workers in a savage feeding frenzy that would make headlines—and history—all over the world. Caputo's Ghosts...
by Philip Caputo
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
When Gil Castle loses his wife, he retreats to his family’s sprawling homestead out west, a forsaken part of the country where drug lords have more power than police. Here Castle begins to rebuild his life, even as he uncovers some dark truths about his fearsome grandfather. When a Mexican illegal...
Horn of Africa
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2012
When Vietnam veteran and foreign correspondent Charlie Gage is recruited by the shadowy Thomas Colfax to assist with something called Operation Atropos, he has no idea he is about to be enlisted for guerilla warfare in northeast Africa. Once he realizes he’s a mercenary, however, he is not at all...
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