Thirty years in the making, this towering,
critically-acclaimed and huge international bestseller is now
available in paperback. One of the most profound and devastating
novels ever to come out of Vietnam - or any war'' Sebastian Junger,
New York Times 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...
關於作者：
KARL MARLANTES, a cum-laude graduate of Yale University and
Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University, was a Marine in Vietnam, where
he was awarded the Navy Cross, the Bronze Star, two Navy
Commendation Medals for valor, two Purple Hearts, and ten air
medals. He has lived and traveled all over the world and now writes
full time. He and his wife, Anne, have five children and live on a
small lake in Washington state. --This text refers to the MP3 CD
edition.
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