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Read [James Webb Book] * Fields of Fire Online ! PDF eBook or Kindle ePUB free. Fields of Fire They had no way of knowing what awaited them. Snake got the tattoo — Death Before Dishonor — before he got the uniform. Goodrich came from Harvard. They each had their reasons for being a soldier.They each had their illusions. 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. Weaving together a cast of vivid
| Title | : | Fields of Fire |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.75 (575 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0553583859 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 496 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-08-24 |
| Language | : | English |
Outstanding War Novel I read Jarhead on a whim earlier this past week. Anthony Swofford, the author, is a gifted young writer. But the book left me feeling empty, even angry. There was an attitude about Swofford and many of his Marine Corps buddies that just rubbed me the wrong way. Whiney might be the right word. Furthermore, Swofford through the course of the. Mouthpiece said Best Vietnam War Novel, Bar None. I started reading novels about Nam when I got home from the Army in 1977 and have read a lot of them. Without a doubt, this is the best one I have read - over and over again through the years. James Webb brings a squad of grunts at the end of the pipeline in Vietnam to life. Every man in the squad has a nickname: Snake (you will come to lo. Decent Story, Author? doddjo The author used terms that simply did not exist during the period of which the story was written i.e., the term "dude" did not emerge into the general American culture until the early 1980's.Then, the author does not wind the reader down slowly at the end but abruptly with a slow narrative that lasted too long in comparison to where the st
They had no way of knowing what awaited them. Snake got the tattoo — Death Before Dishonor — before he got the uniform. Goodrich came from Harvard. They each had their reasons for being a soldier.They each had their illusions. 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. Weaving together a cast of vivid characters, Fields of Fire captures the journey of unformed men through a man-made hell — until each man finds his fate.. And in the heat and horror of battle they took on new identities, t
“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 OregonianLook for these other Bantam novels by James Webb:The Emperor’s Generaland on sale now in hardcover:Lost Soldiers
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