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Matterhorn Author: Karl Marlantes

ISBN: 9781848874961 Format: Paperback Number Of Pages: 704 Published: 1 May 2011 Country of Publication: GB Dimensions (cm): 19.8 x 12.9 x 4.7 Description: Thirty years in the making, this towering, critically-acclaimed and huge international best seller is now available in paperback.

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. 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. invisible enemy.

Beneath the endless jungle canopy, Bravo Company will coBGront 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...

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