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.
關於作者:
A graduate of Yale University and 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.