James Webb Fields Of Fire

Webb, James H. FIELDS OF FIRE, Annapolis, Md. Naval Institute Press 2000
ISBN: 1-55750-963-8 AS NEW

ABOUT THE BOOK Fields of Fire ANNOTATION The classic novel of the Vietnam War The Philadelphia Inquirer hailed as "one hell of a good read." In the tradition of All Quiet on the Western Front, The Naked and the Dead, and Platoons, James Webb's savage, poignant novel, a classic of the Vietnam War, returns in stunning immediacy to seize a new generation of readers. Reissue. FROM THE PUBLISHER Hailed as the most important novel to emerge from the Vietnam War, Fields of Fire launched a spectacular writing career for James Webb in 1978. A much-decorated former marine who fought and was wounded in Vietnam, Webb tells the story of a platoon of tough, young marines enduring the tropical hell of Southeast Asian jungles while facing an invisible enemy--in a war no one understands. It is a powerful work that brilliantly expresses the basic ambiguity of war: the repulsion of war's destruction contrasted with the grisly attraction of war as the ultimate test of survival. FROM THE CRITICS Tom Wolfe In my opinion, the finest of the Vietnam novels. Houston Post Few writers since Stephen Crane have portrayed men at war with such a ring of steely truth. Oregonian A novel of such fullness and impact, one is tempted to compare it to Norman Mailer's The Naked and the Dead. Houston Post Few writers since Stephen Crane have portrayed men at war with such a ring of steely truth. Time Webb's book has the unmistakable sound of truth acquired the hard way. His men hate the war; it is lethal fact cut adrift from personal sense. Yet they understand that its profound insanity, its blood and oblivion, have in some way made them fall in love with battle and with each other. Read all 9 "From The Critics" > Paperback 23 cm.

[SW: Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Fiction, War stories]

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James H. Webb: Fields of Fire (Bluejacket Books) US Naval Institute Press 05/22/2000 ISBN: 1557509638

Hailed as the most important novel to emerge from the Vietnam War, Fields of Fire launched a spectacular writing career for James Webb in 1978. A much-decorated former marine who fought and... Brandneue, Perfekte Bedingungen für Überseesendungen Innerhalb 30 Liefertagen. Brand New, Perfect Condition. May Ship From Overseas, Allow 30 Days Delivery Time. Format: Paperback Condition: New

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Fuller, Jack: Fragments - A Novel, NY William Morrow & Company, Inc. 1984
ISBN: 0-688-02630-3 Fine in Near Fine Dust Jacket Dust Jacket Design By Honi Werner; Book Design By Ellen Lo Giudice

214pp. Brown quarter-cloth, light brown paper boards, gilt spine lettering, light brown endpapers. Dust jacket price 12.95. SIGNED BY AUTHOR to half-title page. Second novel. Jack Fuller had a long career as a Chicago Tribune newspaperman, rising through the ranks from a 16-year-old reporter to President of the Tribune Publishing Company, along the way winning a Pulitzer prize for editorial writing as well as writing six novels, four of them espionage/crime/mystery thrillers, one combining the elements of jazz and mystery, and one about the Vietnam War. His novels have been compared to Nelson Algren, Graham Greene, John le Carre, Norman Mailer and James Jones. 'Fragments' is a story about how war can make everything explosive--even love--and how two friends try to put the pieces of their lives together again. "[Fragments] makes the usual semi-autobiographical account [of the Vietnam War] . . . seem flimsy and discursive in comparison. . . . The shapeliness and sense of larger design [is] so elegantly executed in Fragments."--Michiko Kakutani, New York Times. "The plot is believable, the characters sharply drawn, the prose clean and distinctive. . . . Stand[s] with Tim O'Brien's Going After Cacciato, James Webb's Fields of Fire, Josiah Bunting's The Lionheads and John Del Vecchio's The 13th Valley. . . . A strong, compelling novel."--Marc Leepson, Washington Post. "There have been many books on Vietnam, and there will be many others. This is more a novel than the rest. . . . Fuller has reassembled the exploded grenade."--Bob MacDonald, Boston Sunday Globe. "Should our children ask about Vietnam, we would not go wrong to place this book in their hands. . . . [Fragments] purveys more than information--it gives the war a literary form."--David Myers, New York Times. "The best novel yet about the Vietnam War. . . . It ranks with Norman Mailer's The Naked and the Dead and James Jones's From Here to Eternity."--Daniel Kornstein, Wall Street Journal. Book is unblemished; dust jacket has some minor shelfwear to spine extremeties and to edges, but very bright and fully intact. Scarce signed. Signed by Author First Edition Near Fine Hard Cover 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

[SW: Vietnam Fiction]

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Webb, James; Rubenstein, Julie (editor): Lost Soldiers, New York, NY, U.S.A. Dell Publishing 2002 ; weicher Einband / soft cover ISBN: 0440240913
0440240913 Good

Brandon Condley has returned to postwar Vietnam and finds mystery , intrigue, betrayal and murder in his search for the remains of MIA's. A Mass Mkt. Pb.- Min. Edgewear Paperback A Clean Tight Text Min. Crease & Lean to Spine

[SW: FICTION GENERAL FIELDS OF FIRE JAMES WEBB MIA VIETNAM MURDER INTRIGUE VIOLENCE SOLDIER WAR POSTWAR BRANDON CONDLEY]

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