Fields of Fire (A Mayflower book) - Softcover

Webb, James

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9780583133319: Fields of Fire (A Mayflower book)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0583133312 ISBN 13: 9780583133319

Publisher: Grafton, 1981

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They each had their reasons for being a soldier. They each had their illusions. Goodrich came from Harvard. Snake got the tattoo - Death Before Dishonor - before he got the uniform. And Hodges was haunted by the ghosts of family heroes. They were three young men from different worlds plunged into a white-hot, murderous realm of jungle warfare as it was fought by one Marine platoon in the An Hoa Basin, 1969. They had no way of knowing what awaited them. Nothing could have prepared them for the madness to come. And in the heat and horror of battle they took on new identities, took on each other, and were each reborn in fields of fire....

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Review:

" In my opinion, the finest of the Vietnam novels."
-- Tom Wolfe
" Few writers since Stephen Crane have portrayed men at war with such a ring of steely truth."
-- "The Houston Post"
" A novel of such fullness and impact, one is tempted to compare it to Norman Mailer's The Naked and the Dead."
-- "The Oregonian"

Look for these other Bantam novels by James Webb:
The Emperor's General
and on sale now in hardcover:
Lost Soldiers
In my opinion, the finest of the Vietnam novels.
Tom Wolfe
Few writers since Stephen Crane have portrayed men at war with such a ring of steely truth.
"The Houston Post"
A novel of such fullness and impact, one is tempted to compare it to Norman Mailer s The Naked and the Dead.
"The Oregonian"

Look for these other Bantam novels by James Webb:
The Emperor s General
and on sale now in hardcover:
Lost Soldiers
"

"In my opinion, the finest of the Vietnam novels."
-- Tom Wolfe
"Few writers since Stephen Crane have portrayed men at war with such a ring of steely truth."
-- The Houston Post
"A novel of such fullness and impact, one is tempted to compare it to Norman Mailer's The Naked and the Dead."
-- The Oregonian

Look for these other Bantam novels by James Webb:
The Emperor's General

and on sale now in hardcover:
Lost Soldiers

About the Author:

James Webb, who has worked and traveled in Vietnam extensively since 1991, was one of the most highly decorated combat Marines of the Vietnam War. An attorney and Emmy Award-winning journalist, he has served as secretary of the navy, assistant secretary of defense, and full committee counsel to the U.S. Congress. He lives in Virginia, where he has authored five critically acclaimed, bestselling novels.

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