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  • Written by: James Webb
  • Narrated by: Sean Runnette
  • Length: 17 hrs and 1 min
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Fields of Fire

Written by: James Webb
Narrated by: Sean Runnette
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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....

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.
©1978 James Webb (P)2013 Tantor
Suspense Historical Fiction Literature & Fiction Literary Fiction Genre Fiction
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"In my opinion the finest of the Vietnam novels." (Tom Wolfe)

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Good book, unremarkable narrator

Narrator mispronounced some words including “rations” and “Corpsman”. Two excellent war novels on Audible are Matterhorn and All quiet on the western front.

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Amazing read

Thank you Jocko Podcast for your cover of this book and for getting me absolutely hooked. Thank you James Webb for your service and your amazing writing ability

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