Matterhorn

London: Corvus. Very Good-. 2011. First Irish Edition; Third Printing. Paperback. Some reading and cover creases, some edge and shelf wear with tiny split to bottom fore edge of slightly cocked spine, tiny closed tear to front endpaper, some foxing to endpapers and edges of reading block. ; Third printing of Corvus paperback edition, 2011. Nice tight, good reading copy. Cover design by Ghost with photo courtesy of Stu Smucker / Lonely Planet Images. Very heavy book and priced accordingly. ; 720 pages; Winner of the 2011 Washington State Book Award for fiction. Fire Support Base Matterhorn: an isolated mountain fortress of America's increasingly desperate war in Vietnam. Second Lieutenant Waino Mellas, 21 years old, has barely arrived at Matterhorn before his unit, Bravo Company, is ordered to abandon their base and sent deep in-country in pursuit of a North Vietnamese Army group of unknown size. Beyond the relative safety of the perimeter wire, Mellas will face disease, starvation, leeches, tigers and an almost invisible enemy. Beneath the endless jungle canopy, Bravo Company will confront competing ambitions, duplicitous officers and simmering racial tensions. Behind them, always, Matterhorn - the impregnable mountain fortress they built and then abandoned, without a shot, to the North Vietnamese Army... .