Marlantes, Karl

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.

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United States . Marine Corps ----Fiction


Vietnam War, 1961-1975----Fiction


War stories

PS3613.A76594 / M27 2010

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