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Matterhorn by Karl Marlantes | Book review
Ho Chi Minh City :: Vietnam | almost 3 years ago
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Matterhorn by Karl Marlantes The Vietnam war proves rough terrain for James Campbell James Campbell Moving through the underbrush during an attack by North Vietnamese snipers, 1965 Photograph: AP For the men of Bravo Company, Fifth Marine Division,
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Matterhorn by Karl Marlantes | Book review
Đà Nẵng :: Vietnam | almost 3 years ago
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Rex Features In the summer of 1970, Karl Marlantes, a recently demobilised Vietnam veteran posted to US Marine Corps headquarters after 13 months of highly decorated active service, found himself walking some sensitive military papers across to the
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Marlantes’ first novel an epic war story
Ho Chi Minh City :: Vietnam | almost 3 years ago
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WAR Atlantic Monthly Press, $24.95; 600 pp. Sometimes it's easier to tell the truth in fiction than in a memoir or history. Marlantes, who is a former Vietnam bush Marine as well as a Yale graduate and Rhodes Scholar, has written a big, brilliant
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Matterhorn
Đông Hà :: Vietnam | 3 years ago
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It's 1969, a year tossing in the wake of its turbulent predecessor. In '68, assassins claimed Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy. American troops massacred Vietnamese villagers at My Lai and the execution of a Northern Vietnamese Army (NVA)
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In first-time author, Vietnam War finds its Virgil at last
Vientiane :: Laos | 3 years ago
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It is a rich, fine, powerful story told with excruciating precision about men driven to extremes of fear and courage. It is about disillusionment and betrayal, but it is also about loyalty and idealism...Waino Mellas, he's soaked, exhausted and
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