I Heard My Country Calling: A Memoir

摘要

I Heard My Country Calling: A Memoir is James Webb's deeply moving recount of his life as a "military brat" and as a Naval Academy midshipman, from the immediate post-World War Ⅱ period through the height of the Vietnam era. It was during this time that an insecure America, entrenched in a deepening ideological cold war with the Soviet Union, adopted and maintained a large standing peacetime military. Webb shares experiences from his childhood and early adult years on growing up in a military environment. The real purpose of his book, however, is less about storytelling-although the stories he tells are mesmerizing-and more about sharing what it truly means to grow up and serve in the military.