Philip Caputo
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Philip Joseph Caputo was an American author and journalist. He was best known for A Rumor of War, a best-selling memoir of his experiences during the Vietnam War. Caputo wrote 19 books, including thre
Caputo in 2016
Battle of the Hotels
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The Battle of the Hotels was a subconflict within the 1975–77 phase of the Lebanese Civil War that occurred in the Minet-el-Hosn hotel district of downtown Beirut. This area was one of the first major
Philip Caputo
…and he worked in Italy, the Soviet Union and the Middle East. In 1975, he was shot and wounded in the ankle by a militiaman with an AK-47 during the Battle of the Hotels in Lebanon. Caputo's first two marriages, to Jill Ongemach and Marcelle Basse, ended in divorce. He had two sons from his first marriage. In 1988, he…
The partially damaged Holiday Inn Beirut in the hotel district of Beirut, with the Phoenicia in front of it on the right in 2009
The Holiday Inn Beirut was used as a vantage point for militia snipers and was badly damaged
Ruins of the Saint-Georges Hotel, on the right in 2005