Matterhorn is a marvel--a living, breathing book with Lieutenant Waino Mellas and the men of
Bravo Company at its raw and battered heart. Karl Marlantes doesn't introduce you to Vietnam
in his brilliant war epic--he unceremoniously drops you into the jungle, disoriented and
dripping with leeches, with only the newbie lieutenant as your guide. Mellas is a bundle of
anxiety and ambition, a college kid who never imagined being part of a "war that none of his
friends thought was worth fighting," who realized too late that "because of his desire to look
good coming home from a war, he might never come home at all." A highly decorated Vietnam
veteran himself, Marlantes brings the horrors and heroism of war to life with the finesse of
a seasoned writer, exposing not just the things they carry, but the fears they bury, the friends
they lose, and the men they follow. Matterhorn is as much about the development of Mellas from
boy to man, from the kind of man you fight beside to the man you fight for, as it is about the
war itself. Through his untrained eyes, readers gain a new perspective on the ravages of war,
the politics and bureaucracy of the military, and the peculiar beauty of brotherhood.

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