Fields of Fire
Book description
Hailed as the most important novel to emerge from the Vietnam War when first published in 1978, this book launched a spectacular writing career for James Webb that now includes four bestselling novels. A much-decorated former Marine who fought and was wounded in Vietnam, Webb tells the story of a…
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When I wrote my first book, I thought long and hard about what land combat would look like to a soldier or marine.
When my brother came back from AF tech school, he gave me the book Fields of Fire by Jim Webb (A platoon commander in Vietnam). Although it is fiction, it reads like it could be memoir, but moving smoothly from the point of view of each of the three main characters.
The characters are written so deeply and deftly that it was possible to identify with any one of them. The storytelling is so deep and immersive,…
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