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A Novel of the Vietnam War
Atlantic Monthly Press
April 2010
On Sale: March 23, 2010
592 pages
ISBN: 080211928X
EAN: 9780802119285
Hardcover
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Intense, powerful, and compelling, Matterhorn is an epic war novel in the tradition of Norman Mailerβs The Naked and the Dead and James Jonesβs The Thin Red Line. It is the timeless story of a young Marine lieutenant, Waino Mellas, and his comrades in Bravo Company, who are dropped into the mountain jungle of Vietnam as boys and forced to fight their way into manhood. Standing in their way are not merely the North Vietnamese but also monsoon rain and mud, leeches and tigers, disease and malnutrition. Almost as daunting, it turns out, are the obstacles they discover between each other: racial tension, competing ambitions, and duplicitous superior officers. But when the company finds itself surrounded and outnumbered by a massive enemy regiment, the Marines are thrust into the raw and all-consuming terror of combat. The experience will change them forever. Written by a highly decorated Marine veteran over the course of thirty years, Matterhorn is a spellbinding and unforgettable novel that brings to life an entire worldβboth its horrors and its thrillsβand seems destined to become a classic of combat literature.
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