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 Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War
by Karl MarlantesIntense, 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 monsoon rain, mud, leeches, tigers, disease and malnutrition. Almost as daunting, are the obstacles they discover between each other: racial tension, competing ambitions and duplicitous superior officers. 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.
"Matterhorn is one of the most powerful and moving novels about combat, the Vietnam War, and war in general that I have ever read."
--Dan Rather "In this tale, 30 years in the creation, bloody folly envelops a Marine company's construction, abandonment and retaking of a remote hilltop outpost.Ê"
--New York Times Notable Book 2010  Paperback - (5/11)
ZC9289 Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War $15.95
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