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 ...
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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
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Story full of frustration, told from the point of view of a Marine platoon commander, well-drawn characters of other Marines, and the futile actions they had to undertake due to often detached (yet micromanaging) commanders. Strong piece of work, that reads at time like a management case study.
HistorybuffIN
Oct 14, 2010
Matterhorn
This is about experiences of our military in Viet Nam in the 60's. A lot of the description is very accurate and the language, raw, is exactly how the guys talked. This book will take you down memory lane if you served in Nam. The ending, however, was less than hoped for and was the only part of the book that let you down.
