Fields of fire

The realization of war's danger and destruction contrasted with the grisly attraction of war as man's ultimate game, the maximum test of survival. In one riveting sequence after another, Webb builds a crescendo of stunning images more damning than any news story: the atrocities; the telling scenes of contrast between the degraded life of the "grunts"in the field and the easy life of the military higher-ups; and the final, climactic battle scene on the field of fire.

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"Roman over de tragische lotgevallen van Amerikanen en Vietnamezen tijdens de oorlog in Vietnam."
"The realization of war's danger and destruction contrasted with the grisly attraction of war as man's ultimate game, the maximum test of survival. In one riveting sequence after another, Webb builds a crescendo of stunning images more damning than any news story: the atrocities; the telling scenes of contrast between the degraded life of the "grunts"in the field and the easy life of the military higher-ups; and the final, climactic battle scene on the field of fire."@en
"The story of a platoon of Marines fighting in Vietnam evokes the ambiguous and gruesome character of the war and contrasts man's realization of war's dangers with his attraction to war as the ultimate test of survival."@en
"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 From the Paperback edition."@en
"" ... 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"--Cover page 4."

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