Matterhorn Matterhorn

Matterhorn

A Novel of the Vietnam War

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Publisher Description

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.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2010
April 1
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
592
Pages
PUBLISHER
Grove Atlantic
SELLER
Lightning Source, LLC
SIZE
3.6
MB

Customer Reviews

Gordyb102 ,

Matterhorn

As a marine who served from 1966-70, this book brought back many memories of the corps. The author did an excellent job describing the day to day life of a grunt marine serving in Viet Nam. An excellent read.

BP696901 ,

Excellent book!

Captivating story, captures well the brotherhood within the Corps.

dabeaven ,

Matterhorn

I too served in Quang Tri Province...for the most part the book is a compilation of challenges faced by Marines and Army Infantry assigned to I-Corp. All things considered it is excellently written and allows others to understand the trials of young men battling the conditions and the enemy in a jungle environment which is often in the enemy,s own backyard!

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