Matterhorn
by Karl Marlantes
A Marine lieutenant's novel of Vietnam, thirty years in the writing: a company ordered to take, abandon and retake a hill. Leadership, race, futility and courage in exhausting detail.
Read it if…
you want the fullest fictional account of small-unit leadership in combat.
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Skip it if…
you want a short read; it is 600 pages.
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Three things you will actually use
- Leaders bear the orders they hate.
- Care for the people, not the objective.
- Futility does not excuse you from duty.
Do this first
Read the first assault on the hill.
Our verdict
Vietnam's great novel.
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