LEADERSHIP
Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War
By Karl Marlantes · 640 pages
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Marlantes's semiautobiographical Vietnam novel set in the jungle highlands of I Corps, following a Marine platoon that fights its own command structure as much as the enemy. Dense, brutal, and widely regarded as the finest American novel of the Vietnam War — a meditation on leadership, loyalty, and the decisions that haunt officers for the rest of their lives.
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