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— 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
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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....
Fields of Fire is James Webb’s classic, searing novel of the Vietnam War, a novel of poetic power, razor-sharp observation, and agonizing human truths seen through the prism of nonstop combat. 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.
Hodges sat against a wet, grassy paddy dike and lazily stirred a can of Beef and Potatoes with a dirty plastic spoon. Lesen Sie die erste Seite Ausgewählte Seiten ansehen
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Throughout the book, Mr. Webb painstakingly leaves political discussion out of the picture, and instead, focuses on a Marine rifle platoon in one of the fiercest battlefields of Vietnam where the American civilian value has no relevance, and the platoon, consequently, is pitted in a struggle for survival. Eventually, the entire platoon is wiped out during a regimental operation against the North Vietnamese regulars. Ironically, it is the crippled Harvard undergraduate--a misfit who is dubbed the "Senator" because of his elite background--who delivers the verdict on the anti-war demonstrators for their alleged cowardice.
The book does not try to justify the "legitimacy"--or the lack thereof--of the war where Mr. Webb and his men fought and bled, but calls for its readers to sympathize with and respect the men who fought in it. As he suggests through a Maileresque device known as the Time Machine, everyone in the platoon, except for Senator and the lieutenant, joins the Corps to get away from grim prospects at home, unaware that they will die in a godforsaken war. However, in spite of this, unlike many other typical Vietnam War novels, it discusses abstract ideals such as honor and duty associated with battlefield through Lt. Hodges who willingly volunteers for a tour in Vietnam.
True, the book is dark and depressing, but it is also entertaining and totally believable at the same time. That is why this book remains one of the finest literary works on the Vietnam War
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