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I Heard My Country Calling
James Webb
Simon & Schuster
June 2014
On Sale: May 20, 2014
400 pages
ISBN: 1476741123
EAN: 9781476741123
Kindle: B00GPOYEN4
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Non-Fiction Memoir
James Webb, author of Fields of Fire, the classic novel of
the Vietnam War—former U.S. Senator; Secretary of the Navy;
recipient of the Navy Cross, Silver Star and Purple Heart as
a combat Marine; and a self-described “military brat”—has
written an extraordinary memoir of his early years, “a love
story—love of family, love of country, love of service,” in
his words. Webb’s mother grew up in the poverty-stricken cotton fields
of Eastern Arkansas. His father and life-time hero was the
first of many generations of Webbs, whose roots are in
Appalachia, to finish high school. He flew bombers in World
War II, cargo planes in the Berlin Airlift, graduated from
college in middle age, and became an expert in the nation’s
most advanced weaponry. Webb’s account of his childhood is a tremendous American
saga as the family endures the constant moves and challenges
of the rarely examined Post-World War II military, with his
stern but emotionally invested father, loving and resolute
mother, a granite-like grandmother who held the family
together during his father’s frequent deployments, and an
assortment of invincible aunts, siblings, and cousins. His
account of his four years at Annapolis are painfully honest
but in the end triumphant. His description of Vietnam’s most
brutal battlefields breaks new literary ground. One of the
most highly decorated combat Marines of that war, he is a
respected expert on the history and conduct of the war. Webb’s novelist’s eyes and ears invest this work with
remarkable power, whether he is describing the resiliency
that grew from constant relocations during his childhood,
the longing for his absent father, his poignant goodbye to
his parents as he leaves for Vietnam, his role as a
23-year-old lieutenant through months of constant combat, or
his election to the Senate where he was known for his
expertise in national defense, foreign policy, and economic
fairness. This is a life that could only happen in America.
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