9780133142860 - Fields of Fire di Webb, James H. (17 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condizione: Used - Acceptable. Condizione sovraccoperta: Poor. Dust jacket has serious shelf wear and aging. Book is aged.

Condizione: Good. First Edition. 1 in number line. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Paperback. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. a novel Solid binding. Moderate edgewear on the boards. Moderate shelf wear. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Book.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. Third printing [stated]. [12], 344 pages. Map. Some edge discoloration. DJ has some wear and soiling. Embossed stamp of John Forrest Lyman (noted naval technologist and historian, and academic) on fep! This novel about the Marines during the Vietnam War includes a full page black and white map of the An Hoa Basin, as well as a glossary. James Henry Webb Jr. (born February 9, 1946) is an American politician and author. He has served as a United States Senator from Virginia, Secretary of the Navy, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Reserve Affairs, Counsel for the United States House Committee on Veterans' Affairs and is a decorated Marine Corps officer. In the private sector he has been an Emmy Award winning journalist, a filmmaker, and the author of ten books. In addition, he taught literature at the United States Naval Academy and was a Fellow at the Harvard Institute of Politics. The author was an Annapolis graduate, and served nine months in the field in Vietnam as a platoon and company commander. He was wounded twice, and was one of the Marine Corps' most highly decorated Marines, receiving the Navy Cross, Silver Star, two Bronze Stars, plus unit and campaign awards. With extraordinary skill and realism, the author evokes the peculiar character of America's longest, most costly, and most controversial war. Fields of Fire brilliantly expresses man's basic ambiguity about war: 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. They each had their reasons for joining the Marines. They each had their illusions. Goodrich came from Harvard. Snake got the tattoo-"Death Before Dishonor"-before he got the uniform. 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 one another, and were each reborn in fields of fire. Fields of Fire is James Webb's classic 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. Derived from a Kirkus review: Webb's first novel does that effectively unsettling thing without which a war novel totally wilts: it kills its characters off with suddenness, without warning--and that's it, they're gone, dead, blown away or mutilated or medevac-ed out by helicopter. Webb puts us in the paddies with the grunts and makes us share their overwhelming sense of randomness. Wearing a stiff upper lip politically and downplaying the psychology, Webb sticks to his atmosphere--gory and fearing and solid. There's more real feel of the battleground here than in a far more ambitious books.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine+. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good+. First Edition; First Printing. Book Very Fine, NO defects. NO names, notes or ANY markings. DJ with 2" piece gone from a REAR corned, else DJ+ (see image) not clipped ($9.95) ; 344 pages.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. Binding tight, content and straight. Dust jacket in very good condition, with minor corner bumping, a small crease on lower front outer corner where there's a closed tear and some minor creasing on head and bottom of spine, in protective mylar. If purchasing internationally, please inquire about shipping charges before purchase. Ships within 1-2 business days.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. Oliver green paper covered boards, lettered in rust foil. Minor fading to spine panel, former owner's signature/date inked on front flyleaf, light diagonal crease to flyleaf and front blank, otherwise essentially as issued. Dust jacket is chipped with minor loss at spine extremities and several corners, red spine panel lettering faded, with mild tanning to spine panel and flap folds, now in mylar. 1st ptg. (full number line). Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

Condizione: good. A copy that has been read, remains in good condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. The spine and cover show signs of wear. Pages can include notes and highlighting and show signs of wear, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. 100% GUARANTEE! Shipped with delivery confirmation, if you're not satisfied with purchase please return item! Ships via media mail.

Hardcover. Condizione: VG. Condizione sovraccoperta: VG. First Edition. small chip & closed tear to an unclipped dj, clean copy!

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. Book Club Edition. 344pp. Olive boards with red spine lettering. Signed and inscribed by Webb in July 1987 on dedication page to a fellow marine. (Webb was then Navy Secretary and the dedication is headed "The Pentagon." Book is clean and unmarked. DJ is rippled with a little wear and creasing top back edge. Now protected in removable mylar jacket. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hard Cover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. First Edition. First novel by James Webb, later Secretary of the Navy and United States Senator of Virginia. In November 2014, he became the first major Democratic Party figure to announce an exploratory committee for the 2016 presidential election. First Edition with full number line to 1. Olive boards with metallic red text on spine and stress line down the middle. Somewhat of a back-to-front shelf lean. Slight edge and corner rub wear. Previous owner's name and message written on first fly page, but rest of interior nice and clean. Jacket has chips, tears, and yellowing at edges. Sticker adhesive stain on front flap. Used Book.

Hardcover. Condizione: new. New Copy. Customer Service Guaranteed.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. 8vo.First Edition.about Fine.sticker removed from front f.e.p in an about Fine D.J.(H24/1).