Matterhorn
Karl Marlantes • 2010
Devastation Rating
war survival loss trauma
Our Take
Marines build a firebase on a jungle hill in Vietnam, abandon it, and are ordered to retake it. Marlantes served at Khe Sanh and writes combat with a tactical precision that makes the waste visible and material. These men die for nothing and they know it. The grief accumulates with the body count.
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