Lieutenant Waino Mellas and his fellow Marines venture into the mountain jungle of Vietnam as boys and fight their way into manhood, confronting external obstacles as well as racial tension, competing ambitions, and underhanded officers.
Matterhorn: a novel of the vietnam war
β Scribed by Karl Marlantes
- Publisher
- Atlantic Monthly Press
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 399 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- New York
- ISBN
- 080211928X
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Belletristische Darstellung
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SUMMARY: Intense, powerful, and compelling, Matterhorn is an epic war novel in the tradition of Norman Mailerβs The Naked and the Dead and James Jonesβs 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 t
SUMMARY: Intense, powerful, and compelling, Matterhorn is an epic war novel in the tradition of Norman Mailerβs The Naked and the Dead and James Jonesβs 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
### Amazon.com Review **Amazon Best Books of the Month, March 2010** : _Matterhorn_ is a marvel--a living, breathing book with Lieutenant Waino Mellas and the men of Bravo Company at its raw and battered heart. Karl Marlantes doesn't introduce you to Vietnam in his brilliant war epic--he unceremoni
SUMMARY: Intense, powerful, and compelling, Matterhorn is an epic war novel in the tradition of Norman Mailers The Naked and the Dead and James Joness 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
SUMMARY: Intense, powerful, and compelling, Matterhorn is an epic war novel in the tradition of Norman Mailerβs The Naked and the Dead and James Jonesβs 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