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Matterhorn

Karl Marlantes

Paperback | Pages: 663 pages

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Title	:	Matterhorn
Author	:	Karl Marlantes
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 663 pages
Published	:	April 1st 2009 by El Leon Literary Arts
Categories	:	Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. War. Military Fiction

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A big, powerful saga of men in combat, written over the course of thirty-five years by a highly decorated Vietnam veteran. 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 over the course of thirty years by a highly decorated Vietnam veteran, Matterhorn is a visceral and spellbinding novel about what it is like to be a young man at war. It is an unforgettable novel that transforms the tragedy of Vietnam into a powerful and universal story of courage, camaraderie, and sacrifice: a parable not only of the war in Vietnam but of all war, and a testament to the redemptive power of literature. A graduate of Yale University and a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University, Karl Marlantes served as a Marine in Vietnam, where he was awarded the Navy Cross, the Bronze Star, two Navy Commendation Medals for valor, two Purple Hearts, and ten air medals. This is his first novel. He lives in rural Washington State.

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Original Title:	Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War
ISBN:	0979528534 (ISBN13: 9780979528538)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Vietnam,1968
Literary Awards:	Exclusive Books Boeke Prize Nominee (2011), Indies Choice Book Award for Debut Book (2011), W.Y. Boyd Literary Award for Excellence in Military Fiction (2011), James Fenimore Cooper Prize (2011), Washington State Book Award for Fiction (2011) The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize (2010), International Dublin Literary Award Nominee for Shortlist (2012)

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An unforgettable and powerful read of Marines in combat, and all the minute detail of leading men, in bivouac, on patrols and in the VCB. One section of the story the was about the The Trail of Tears Op. The book included a few maps, and a glossary of terms and military slang.

Outstanding novel of the Vietnam War. Among the handful of truly great fictional accounts of war. The main focus is on a volunteer young Marine lieutenant, Mellas, as he struggles to be a good soldier, lead his men, and suffer the poor decisions of the officers tasked with an unwinnable war no longer supported widely at home. As revealed well in the narrative, there were few pitched battles or contention to take territory, but instead many skirmishes with political goals, including an artificial

Sebastian Junger, in his New York Times review (4/4/10) of "Matterhorn," noted that "[i:]t's not a book so much as a deployment, and you will not return unaltered." Junger continues: "There is a blizzard of names, ranks and military terms, for instance, and despite the glossary and unit schematic included in the book, I still felt lost much of the time. That confusion, however, was exactly my experience while covering the United States military as a journalist, and in "Matterhorn" it struck me

"It won't hurt you. It's just to kill plants. It's called Agent Orange... and it won't bother humans." This is such a sad and wonderful story. The sadness is apparent, as no person who participated in this war would ever return whole - there would always be part of their soul left behind. But the story, as told by Karl Marlantes, was wonderful in that it highlights the best and worst in all of us. I recall hearing one of the journalists who covered this war saying that we, as a nation, often

The first novel I've ever read about the Vietnam war. The author fought in the conflict and it apparently took him many years to write this novel. The sense of authenticity is palpable throughout - occasionally this can be a hindrance (a little too much of the realistic banter engaged in by the men slowed down the pace at times) but mainly it's a huge asset. First and foremost it's a brilliant dramatization of the insanity of war. Unlike every operation in the second world war where every

If you read the reviews of Matterhorn you are going to see words like moving, riveting, heartbreaking, mesmerizing, masterful, epic, authentic, funny even and always unforgettable. All true and more.Karl Marlantes knows of what he writes from his service as a Marine in Vietnam. He wanted to somehow explain this experience to his family and to share it with us. Vietnam was what I call "my war" meaning it was happening just as I was graduating and getting ready to start my adult life. It was part

It was so good it hurt. Really good. Matterhorn makes it clear you will NEVER understand what it is like to go to war, unless you are one of the warriors in the fight. But he will drag you into a world that seems so immediate and real, you will come out drained. It took him 30 years to write the story and it paid off, every detail, scene and emotion is captured brilliantly. It may be fiction but it reads as ground truth. I guarantee any student of war will put this book on the permanent shelf. I