Another Such Victory An American Fable eBook James Harriss
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ANOTHER SUCH VICTORY An American Fable by James Harriss is the story of a classical poet-warrior, cast in the mold of an American soldier, set during the thirty years between 1948 and 1978.
Texas cedar chopper Ben Moore gives up courting the noncommittal Laurel Sitwell, stops lamenting that no college offered him a football scholarship, decides his mail order bachelor's degree is worthless, believes his novel will never be published, quits chopping cedar and enlists in the United States Army.
He marries the steadfast Susan Fleetwood, who has had a crush on him since time out of mind, and winds up in Officer Candidate School. Meantime, Laurel leaves home, withdraws from college, moves to New York and marries Dr. Saul Irving.
Posted in Japan when North Korea invades South Korea, Ben leads a rifle platoon in the first wave of United Nations troops. Three years later, he leaves Korea a decorated combat hero and the sentimental favorite of General Garth Westfield.
In 1954, Westfield dispatches Ben to Indo-China, where he observes French Union deployments and writes a report that never sees daylight. Nine years later, President Kennedy calls Westfield out of retirement and sends him, Ben and a handful of others to South Vietnam on a similar errand that costs the general his life. JFK, shortly before his assassination, adds Ben's name to the list of colonels to be promoted to flag rank.
But the battles in Vietnam are not the only ones General Moore must fight. Journalist Arthur Kahn, a longtime friend, insinuates that Ben committed mutiny during the Korean War. His and Susan's son Travis is killed while leading a campus peace march. Bereaved of their only child, Susan Moore turns her back on her husband. Ben's closest comrades fall in battle. He narrowly avoids a court-martial for a disputed action during the Tet Offensive.
Alone, ravaged by loss, grief, sorrow and guilt, he gravitates toward the only person left alive who knows and loves him Laurel Sitwell Irving, his high school sweetheart. But the solace she supplies is fleeting, and soon, he is unable to live with himself. His friends are still dead, and he still has a wife. And he still loves her.
After his retirement in 1973, Laurel resurfaces to confess that she was carrying Ben's baby when she fled their hometown twenty-five years earlier. Having finally and completely made a home and a peaceable life with Susan, civilian Ben Moore must go to Israel to find Rebekah Claire Irving, the daughter he never even knew he had. When the Syrian surprise attack starts the Yom Kippur War, he is forced by circumstances to assume his last command.
ANOTHER SUCH VICTORY An American Fable by James Harriss is the story of our yesterdays, a story for everyone who struggles to reconcile what never was, with what might have been and to come to terms with what is.
Another Such Victory An American Fable eBook James Harriss
James Harriss takes the reader deep into the psyche of a simple man who believes everything will turn out just fine if he always does the right thing. He marries the right girl, fights war on the right side, surrounds himself with the right people, and yet life doesn't turn out just fine for Ben Moore. The football star turned war hero, the central Texas cedar chopper, rises to the top ranks in the United States Army by always doing his best. If life were fair, he would never have to face more adversity than he meets on the battlefield, but we all know - life isn’t fair. James Harriss writes with passionate prose, describing Ben Moore's battles in Korea and Viet Nam, and his personal struggles in Texas and New York, with such precise and intense insight that the reader comes to understand Ben Moore - love him or dislike him - far better than Ben Moore could ever know himself. The breadth and scope of Another Such Victory places Harriss with the likes of Herman Wouk and Hemingway.Product details
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Another Such Victory An American Fable eBook James Harriss Reviews
A wonderful story of love and war. If you love classical literture and historical fiction with a good dose of love story this is the book for you.
From the end of WWII through Korea and Vietnam, the author weaves a story centered around the life of a single Kiowa Co Texan named Ben Moore. His rise in the military, and civilian circles, the girl he loved and and the woman he married.
Fall/winter is nearing, time to sit by the fire... get this one on your reader.... put on a pot of coffee and settle in for quite a story, you won't be disappointed.
Too much jumping around...I would just get caught up in the combat or whatever and then Harriss jumps to someplace else. It would take me a while to adjust to a different decade.
Read this book. Jimmy Harriss has written an important American saga of war and love and family and hope. His voice and vision call to mind the likes of Robert Stone, Larry Brown, Cormac McCarthy and Daniel Woodrell. A big story by an author with an even bigger heart. Again read this book.
Very well written and very hard to put down. I felt as if I knew the characters personally. The storyline was excellent and filled me with emotion. The only thing I didn't like about this book is that it had to end.
(Full Disclosure I am the authors son.)
I read quite a bit for fun and leisure, but usually pick up a SciFi or Fantasy book. I gave this novel a try and it completely changed my mind about what a great read can be! Action, Drama, Romance, Suspense! Bits and pieces of the human condition rolled up into a quirly smoked in defiance of inaction and despair.
I may be being hyperbolic here but I want to stress the beauty and accessibility of this book to those who may feel intimidated by the length and breadth of it. Do not be swayed! It will grip you from the first page and drag you kicking and screaming to the inevitable conclusion.
After finishing I keep recalling "Okay, what next?"
Harriss has accomplished a massive undertaking. For six hundred pages the action weaves back and forth, city to city, continent to continent, character to character, decade to decade, all according to a rigorously coherent plot. The writing is crisp, clear, and occasionally beautiful. Harriss describes the people, the places, and the action as if he had been over there and seen it all and lived to tell about it. His handling of the details is just astounding.
I cannot recommend this book to any reader who wishes to avoid profanity, even though the characters' blasphemy and vulgarity hardly approach that which characterizes much of modern literature. Beyond the objectionable elements, though, is a captivating story that instructs and inspires.
James Harriss takes the reader deep into the psyche of a simple man who believes everything will turn out just fine if he always does the right thing. He marries the right girl, fights war on the right side, surrounds himself with the right people, and yet life doesn't turn out just fine for Ben Moore. The football star turned war hero, the central Texas cedar chopper, rises to the top ranks in the United States Army by always doing his best. If life were fair, he would never have to face more adversity than he meets on the battlefield, but we all know - life isn’t fair. James Harriss writes with passionate prose, describing Ben Moore's battles in Korea and Viet Nam, and his personal struggles in Texas and New York, with such precise and intense insight that the reader comes to understand Ben Moore - love him or dislike him - far better than Ben Moore could ever know himself. The breadth and scope of Another Such Victory places Harriss with the likes of Herman Wouk and Hemingway.
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