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James Webb Books in Order

James Webb has written 10 books, published between 1974 and 2014. The first book is Micronesia and U.S. Pacific Strategy: A Blueprint for the 1980s (1974) and the newest is I Heard My Country Calling: A Memoir (2014). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
10
Published
1974–2014
Total pages
3,744 across 10 books
Reading time
62–94 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 3,744 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute.

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James Henry Webb Jr., born on February 9, 1946, is an American author and politician. Webb is a retired Marine Corps officer and has been a United States senator from Virginia, secretary of the Navy, assistant secretary of defense for reserve affairs and counsel to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Webb has also worked as a journalist and filmmaker. The catalogue lists 10 books from Micronesia and U.S. Pacific Strategy (1974) to I Heard My Country Calling: A Memoir (2014), among them Fields of Fire (1978), A Sense of Honor (1981) and Born Fighting (2004).

How many James Webb books are there?

James Webb has 10 books, released between 1974 and 2014.

James Webb Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 10 James Webb books in the order they were published, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.

  1. Cover of Fields of Fire by James Webb (1978)
  2. Cover of A Sense of Honor by James Webb (1981)
  3. Cover of A Country Such as This by James Webb (1983)
  4. Cover of Something to Die For by James Webb (1991)
  5. Cover of The Emperor's General by James Webb (1999)
  6. Cover of Lost Soldiers by James Webb (2001)
  7. Cover of Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America by James Webb (2004)
  8. Cover of A Time to Fight: Reclaiming a Fair and Just America by James Webb (2008)
  9. Cover of I Heard My Country Calling: A Memoir by James Webb (2014)
  1. 1
    Micronesia and U.S. Pacific Strategy: A Blueprint for the 1980s1974 · 122 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1974122
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  2. 2
    Fields of Fire1978 · 457 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1978457
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  3. 3
    A Sense of Honor1981 · 320 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1981320
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  4. 4
    A Country Such as This1983 · 534 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1983534
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  5. 5
    Something to Die For1991 · 402 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1991402
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  6. 6
    The Emperor's General1999 · 467 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1999467
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  7. 7
    Lost Soldiers2001 · 446 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2001446
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  8. 8
    Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America2004 · 400 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2004400
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  9. 9
    A Time to Fight: Reclaiming a Fair and Just America2008 · 208 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2008208
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  10. 10
    I Heard My Country Calling: A Memoir2014 · 388 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2014388
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James Webb books grouped by series

Each title below is a row in the publication-order table above. None of these groups has a reading-order page of its own on this site.

Standalone books

10 books

10 James Webb titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read James Webb books in order?

No. No source lists any of the 10 James Webb books here as part of a series. The numbered table above gives them by publication date.

Where to start with James Webb

Start with Micronesia and U.S. Pacific Strategy: A Blueprint for the 1980s (1974), the earliest published title.

What is the newest James Webb book?

I Heard My Country Calling: A Memoir (2014) is the newest James Webb book released so far.

Is there a new James Webb book coming?

No next James Webb book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.

James Webb at a glance

No recent titles
The newest James Webb title on record dates from 2014, 12 years ago. No later title is catalogued.
Release pace
James Webb books have appeared about one every 4 years on average.
Length
3,744 pages across all 10 books with a recorded length, a median of 401 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most James Webb books, 3 of 10, were published in the 2000s.

What the James Webb books are about

All 10 James Webb books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: vietnam war, 1961-1975 is tagged on 3 of 10. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.