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Matterhorn Karl Marlantes

Matterhorn von Karl Marlantes

Matterhorn Karl Marlantes

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Zusammenfassung

Written by a highly decorated war 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.

Matterhorn Zusammenfassung

Matterhorn Karl Marlantes

WINNER OF THE FLAHERTY-DUNNAN FIRST NOVEL PRIZE

Fire Support Base Matterhorn: a fortress carved out of the grey-green mountain jungle. Cold monsoon clouds wreath its mile-high summit, concealing a battery of 105-mm howitzers surrounded by deep bunkers, carefully constructed fields of fire and the 180 marines of Bravo Company. Just three kilometres from Laos and two from North Vietnam, there is no more isolated outpost of America's increasingly desperate war in Vietnam.

Second Lieutenant Waino Mellas, 21 years old and just a few days into his 13-month tour, has barely arrived at Matterhorn before Bravo Company is ordered to abandon their mountain and sent deep in-country in pursuit of a North Vietnamese Army unit of unknown size.

Beyond the relative safety of the perimeter wire, Mellas will face disease, starvation, leeches, tigers and an almost invisible enemy. Beneath the endless jungle canopy, Bravo Company will confront competing ambitions, duplicitous officers and simmering racial tensions. Behind them, always, Matterhorn. The impregnable mountain fortress they built and then abandoned, without a shot, to the North Vietnamese Army...


WINNER OF THE CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE

Matterhorn Bewertungen

'A terrific, towering novel. Marine Lieutenant Marlantes does for the Vietnam War what Lieutenant Sassoon did for the war in Flanders; what Sergeant Mailer did for the war in the Pacific; what Tenente Hemingway did for the war in Italy. He takes you there, shakes you, and never lets you go... Matterhorn will surely take its place on every armchair-warrior's bookshelf, shoulder to shoulder with Memoirs of an Infantry Officer, The Naked and the Dead, and A Farewell to Arms.' Jon Stallworthy, editor, The Oxford Book of War Poetry

Über Karl Marlantes

A graduate of Yale University and a 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 valour, two Purple Hearts and ten air medals. This is his first novel.

Zusätzliche Informationen

GOR010580046
9781848874947
1848874944
Matterhorn Karl Marlantes
Karl Marlantes
Gebraucht - Wie Neu
Gebundene Ausgabe
Atlantic Books
20100715
608
Winner of CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE 2010 (UK) Short-listed for IMPAC DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD 2012 (UK)
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