Intense, powerful, and compelling, Matterhorn is an epic war novel in the tradition of Norman Mailer’s The Naked and the Dead and James Jones’s The Thin Red Line . It is the timeless story of a young Marine lieutenant, Waino Mellas, and his comrades in Bravo Company, who are dropped into the mountain jungle of Vietnam as boys and forced to fight their way into manhood. Standing in their way are not merely the North Vietnamese but also monsoon rain and mud, leeches and tigers, disease and malnutrition. Almost as daunting, it turns out, are the obstacles they discover between each other: racial tension, competing ambitions, and duplicitous superior officers. But when the company finds itself surrounded and outnumbered by a massive enemy regiment, the Marines are thrust into the raw and all-consuming terror of combat. The experience will change them forever.

Written by a highly decorated Marine veteran over the course of thirty years, Matterhorn is a spellbinding and unforgettable novel that brings to life an entire world—both its horrors and its thrills—and seems destined to become a classic of combat literature.

作者简介

卡尔·马兰提斯（Karl Marlantes）

毕业于美国耶鲁大学，曾获得牛津大学罗德奖学金。虽然有常青藤名校背景，年轻的马兰提斯却志愿成为一名预备役军官，随后参加了越南战争。在战争期间，他被授予了海军十字勋章、铜星奖章、2枚海军荣誉勋章、2枚紫心勋章，以及10枚空军奖章。

越战的经历改写了马兰提斯的一生，《美国人眼中最真实的越南战争》是他花费30年光阴写下的呕心沥血之作。

译者简介

胡坚

1977年1月参军，服役18年。2008年开始发表翻译作品，译有长篇惊险小说《夜海钩沉》，《深海风暴》，《天黑前回家》；翻译军事史作品《自由开火地带——美国海豹突击队越南战记》，《英国陆军史：从英国内战到全球反恐》。