I Heard My Country Calling: A Memoir

By James Webb (novelist)

Categories: Biographies & Memoirs, History

In I Heard My Country Calling, James Webb, author of Fields of Fire and a former senator, recounts his early years. He describes a childhood of constant moves in a post-World War II military family, with a stern but devoted father who flew bombers in the war. Webb then turns to his four years at the Naval Academy and his months of combat in Vietnam as a twenty-three-year-old Marine lieutenant, experiences that shaped the rest of his life.

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• Jocko Willink: “James Webb has ten books that he's written. The two that we covered today will both be on the website, Fields of Fire and then I Heard My Country Calling. These are the two books I read.”