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One of Jacobs's six favorite books about war, as told to The Week magazine:
A Rumor of War by Philip CaputoRead about another book on the list.
No human enterprise gives young people such authority and responsibility at an early age as war. Caputo, a young Marine lieutenant, learned the hard way the toll such responsibility can take when Marines under his supervision made the decision to kill two captives in Vietnam.
--Marshal Zeringue