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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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Fiction
Intense, powerful, and compelling, Matterhorn is an epic war
novel in the tradition of Norman Mailer’s The Naked and the
Dead and James Jones’s 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 world—both
its horrors and its thrills—and seems destined to become a
classic of combat literature.
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