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Matterhorn - A Novel of the Vietnam War (Paperback)
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Matterhorn - A Novel of the Vietnam War (Paperback)
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List price R554
Loot Price R463
Discovery Miles 4 630
You Save R91 (16%)
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Featured in PBS's The Vietnam War series by Ken Burns & Lynn
Novick. The New York Times bestselling, powerhouse (TIME Magazine)
debut from Vietnam War veteran, Karl Marlantes. An incredible
publishing story--written over the course of thirty years by a
highly decorated Vietnam veteran, a New York Times best seller for
sixteen weeks, a National Indie Next and a USA Today best
seller--Matterhorn has been hailed as a "brilliant account of war"
(New York Times Book Review). Now out in paperback, 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. 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. I wouldn't
be surprised if Matterhorn becomes for the Vietnam War what All
Quiet on the Western Front was to World War I. -James Patterson
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