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Matterhorn

Matterhorn

Author(s): Karl Marlantes

Location(s): Vietnam

Genre(s): Fiction

Era(s): 1960s

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Base Matterhorn: a fortress carved into the jungle. Monsoon clouds swirl around the high summit, which is the hiding place of the marines from Bravo company. Close to Laos and North Vietnam, this is total isolation, skirmishes and battles mark the increasingly desperate war in Vietnam. Second Lieutenant Waino Mellas, 21 years old and just a few days into his 13-month tour, has barely arrived at Matterhorn before Bravo Company is ordered to abandon their mountain and sent deep in-country in pursuit of a North Vietnamese Army unit. Mellas faces disease, starvation, leeches, tigers and a virutally invisible enemy….

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‘That Marlantes served in Vietnam lends the book a rare and immersive veracity – bewildering and brilliantly rendered’ The Times

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