Matterhorn : a novel of the Vietnam War
/ Karl Marlantes
- 1st ed.
- New York : Atlantic Monthly Press : Distributed by Publishers Group West , c2010.
- 598 p. : map ; 24 cm.
"Published by Atlantic Monthly Press in association with El León Literary Arts, [Berkeley, Calif.]"--T.p. verso.
In the tradition of Norman Mailer's "The Naked and the Dead" and James Jones's "The Thin Red Line," Marlantes tells the powerful and compelling 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.