Fields of Fire: A Novel.

WEBB, James.

Item Number: 138567

Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1978.

First edition of “the finest of the Vietnam novels” (Tom Wolfe). Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, “For Colleen McCarty- with best wishes Jim Webb November 1978.” Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Hal Siegel.

"A novel of such fullness and impact, one is tempted to compare it to Norman Mailer’s The Naked and the Dead" (The Oregonian). “Few writers since Stephen Crane have portrayed men at war with such a ring of steely truth" (The Houston Post).