Field of Honor

By D.L. Birchfield

Book Overview

In D. L. Birchfield's Field of Honor, a secret underground civilization of Choctaws, deep beneath the Ouachita Mountains of southeastern Oklahoma, has evolved into a high-tech culture, supported by... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806136081
• ISBN13: 9780806136080
• Release Date: May 2004
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.7" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Sparkling Wit

D. L. Birchfield's witty observations about the United States military sparkle throughout this highly original novel. There are no sacred cows in Field of Honor. Birchfield even satirizes his own Choctaw heritage when he takes the notion. No wonder then, that he does not hesitate to incorporate a loony mixture of modern concepts such as "game theory" with sacred Indian mythology and a healthy skepticism toward the American government. Field of Honor will enchant readers with a pronounced literary taste. It is surely one of the most creative offerings to grace the vast body of distinguished literature highlighting our western heritage.

A new genre

In his first novel author Donald Birchfield may have created a new genre - a madcap combination of suspense, Indian history and military farce. A member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma and a professor of Native American Studies at the University of Lethbridge in Alberta, Canada, Birchfield is known by his peers as a man of dry wit and expertise in Choctaw history. One wishes to have read Birchfield's soon-to-be published history of the Choctaws before reading Field of Honor, for it would surely enrich the cunningly imparted Choctaw history in this book. But it's not just history Birchfield imparts, but a witty lampoon on whites, academia, Christians, the military and even, at times, Choctaws. It's a wild ride, one that only the author of "The Oklahoma Basic Intelligence Test, and Other New and Collected Elementary, Epistolary, Autobiographical, and Oratorical Choctologies" could conceive of.