Matterhorn

In 1967, Karl Marlantes gave up a Rhodes scholarship to sign on as a Marine in Vietnam, where he won a fistful of medals. Then he spent 30 years writing a novel about what happened to him there. This is it, and it's a powerhouse: tense, brutal, honest and deeply upsetting.

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