Fields of Fire

About the Book

To read this book is to flip through scenes that rivet us with the intimate intensity of snapshots, both comic and tragic. From the hills of Wyoming to the back streets of Saigon, we see the narrator encounter experiences that test her mettle. Enlisting in the Army early, she learns codes of loyalty, secrecy, and courage. We see her confront suffering and warfare in Vietnam, even as she discovers her feelings for another woman soldier. Carol Ogg has written a story too seldom known: what it is to be a woman in war, a fellow soldier, tough, tender, and loving. She tells this story with the grace and humor of a western girl, who gives no quarter in the service of her country.

About the Author

Carol Ogg It's a long way from being a little girl riding a pony to a one room schoolhouse in Wyoming to being a teacher in a high school for troubled kids in the Bronx. As an impatient member of the Army Band she threw her trumpet across the room. As a Sargeant in Vietnam she was awarded the Bronze Star. From the naive kid who joined the army in search of adventure to the thoughtful feminist who toured Europe as the Berlin wall collapsed, Carol Ogg has chronicled the moving and entertaining evolution through love and war of an American woman who was also a soldier.