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Vietnam war, Fiction, Fiction, war & military, United States Marine Corps
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.
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Overwhelming, epic, meticulous and bleak.
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In this tale of the Vietnam War, 30 years in the creation, bloody folly envelops a Marine company’s mission constructing, abandoning and retaking a remote hilltop outpost.
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On Open Library, 6 have read it and 14 want to.
Karl Arthur Marlantes (born December 24, 1944) is an American author and Vietnam War veteran. He has written three books: *Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War* (2010), *What it is Like to go to War* (2011), and *Deep River* (2019). **Source**: [Karl Marlantes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Marlantes) on Wikipedia.
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