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A a timofeevaegorova volunteering for frontline duty, the author flew combat missions piloting the po2 biplane in a liaison squadron. Fields of fire is one of the most powerful pieces of fiction to be written about the vietnam war. Marines in camo space armor, and kinetic harpoons sent from orbit as support versus hundred ton aliens. Fields of fire novel news newspapers books scholar jstor july 2015 learn how and when to. Lee hodges, who comes from a long line of soldiers. Filled with the sounds and smells of combat, it is nevertheless a book about. Fields of fire 1978 fields of fire is james webbs classic, searing novel of the vietnam war, a novel of poetic power, razorsharp observation, and agonizing human truths seen through the prism of nonstop combat. To say it is unplayable in its current version is ridiculous. Snake got the tattoo death before dishonor before he. It gave me high expectations which i do not think were. Buy over fields of fire by anna timofeevaegorova from waterstones today. Fields of fire, has lived up to the pace and style of the first 4 books wonderfully. Fields of fire is james webbs classic, searing novel of the vietnam war, a novel of poetic power, razorsharp observation, and agonizing human truths seen through the prism of nonstop combat.
Snake, goodrich, and hodges all wind up in the same platoon in vietnam. Ned willard wants nothing more than to marry margery fitzgerald. Weaving together a cast of vivid characters, fields of fire captures the journey of unformed men through a manmade hell until each man finds his fate. One of the hottest new authors in the thriller genre. Lumpy, often sentimental, and cast like a hollywood moviethe ghetto black, the harvard dropout, the southern white lieutenantwebbs first novel lacks the shapely sophistication of more literary vietnam novels or the verbal spinerattlingness of michael herrs dispatches. Set in the fields of 1969 vietnam outside da nang, you will meet some interesting characters us marines. Delaware county district library ohio scanned in china. Over fields of fire reads like an oral history, organized chronologically, but roughly transcribed.
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