How long does it take to read Fields of Fire?
James Webb
Fields of Fire by James Webb takes about 7 hours 37 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 7 hours 37 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1978. 415 pages, about 114,125 words.
16 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 12 hours 41 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 7 hours 37 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 45 minutes |
The page count is the median across 11 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The story of a platoon of Marines fighting in Vietnam evokes the ambiguous and gruesome character of the war and contrasts man's realization of war's dangers with his attraction to war as the ultimate test of survival.
Subjects: Fiction, War stories, Fiction, war & military, Naval History
