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Karl Marlantes

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Lacná kniha Matterhorn (-70%)


Fire Support Base Matterhorn: a fortress carved out of the grey-green mountain jungle. Cold monsoon clouds wreath its mile-high summit, concealing a battery of 105-mm howitzers surrounded by deep bunkers, carefully constructed fields of fire and the 180 marines of Bravo Company. Just three kilometres from Laos and two from North Vietnam, there is no more isolated outpost of America's increasingly desperate war in Vietnam. Second Lieutenant Waino Mellas, 21 years old and just a few days into his 13-month tour, has barely arrived at Matterhorn before Bravo Company is ordered to abandon their mountain and sent deep in-country in pursuit of a North Vietnamese Army unit 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...
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3,30 € 11,00 €

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Matterhorn


Az egyik legmélyebb, leggyilkosabb regény a vietnami háborúról - vagy talán a háborúról. A Matterhorn egészen rendkívüli mű, a Meztelenek és holtak és az Oroszlánkölykök méltó párja, utóda, a nagy amerikai háborús regények egyike. Szerzője, hajdani szakasz-, majd századparancsnok a vietnami háborúban, harminc éven át írta, s végül 2010-ben jelentette meg. Óriási sikert aratott, slágerlistákat vezetett, az amazon.com-on a hónap könyve lett. A történet 1969-ben, a vietnami háború legvadabb évében játszódik. Egy fiatal tengerészgyalogos hadnagy megérkezik első állomáshelyére, Dél-Vietnam északnyugati csücskébe, Laosz és a demilitarizált övezet közé. Itt, egy dzsungelbeli magaslaton épít egy századnyi tengerészgyalogos egy leendő tűztámogató bázist, hogy a beszivárgó észak-vietnami reguláris egységek ellen harcoló gyalogságot segítse. A katonák életét ostoba politikai parancsok sora, értelmetlen, gerinctörő munka keseríti, barátok esnek el Mellas hadnagy körül, a fekete polgárjogi mozgalom indulatai is züllesztik a közösséget - és ezek a fiatal, öldöklésre kényszerített, vérző, sokszor napokig ételhez-italhoz sem jutó katonák a legszélsőségesebb helyzetekben döbbennek rá, mégis mennyi szeretetre, bajtársiasságra, önfeláldozásra képes az ember a halál torkában. Karl Marlantes 1944-ben született. A vietnami háborúban tanúsított vitézségéért tizenhatszor tüntették ki, megkapta többek között az amerikai haditengerészet legmagasabb elismerését, a Navy Crosst is.
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16,44 € 17,31 €

Deep River


At the turn of the twentieth century, as the oppression of Russia's imperial rule takes its toll on Finland, the three Koski siblings - Ilmari, Matti and the politicized young Aino - are forced to flee. They settle among a community of Finns in Deep River - a town on the western edges of the United States. The brothers face the excitement and danger of pioneering this frontier wilderness. But while they are climbing and felling trees one-hundred metres high, Aino is organizing the country's fledgling labour movements. As the Koskis strive to rebuild lives and families in an America in flux, they also try to hold fast to the traditions of a home they can never return to. And so the seasons change, the decades pass and the denizens of Deep River slip in and out of love; they become engineers and fishermen, midwives and widows, soldiers and fugitives. In this profoundly moving epic Karl Marlantes masterfully depicts the tyranny of nascent America, the limits of human survival and the enduring might of family love.
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17,58 € 18,50 €

Deep River


'An unforgettable novel.' - Washington Post At the turn of the twentieth century, as the oppression of Russia's imperial rule takes its toll on Finland, the three Koski siblings - Ilmari, Matti and the politicized young Aino - are forced to flee. They settle among a community of Finns in Deep River - a town on the western edges of the United States. The brothers face the excitement and danger of pioneering this frontier wilderness. But while they are climbing and felling trees one-hundred metres high, Aino is organizing the country's fledgling labour movements. As the Koskis strive to rebuild lives and families in an America in flux, they also try to hold fast to the traditions of a home they can never return to. And so the seasons change, the decades pass and the denizens of Deep River slip in and out of love; they become engineers and fishermen, midwives and widows, soldiers and fugitives. In this profoundly moving epic Karl Marlantes masterfully depicts the tyranny of nascent America, the limits of human survival and the enduring might of family love. 'A finely-hewn portrait' An Amazon Best Book of July 2019
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13,25 € 13,95 €

Lacná kniha Matterhorn (-90%)


Fire Support Base Matterhorn: a fortress carved out of the grey-green mountain jungle. Cold monsoon clouds wreath its mile-high summit, concealing a battery of 105-mm howitzers surrounded by deep bunkers, carefully constructed fields of fire and the 180 marines of Bravo Company. Just three kilometres from Laos and two from North Vietnam, there is no more isolated outpost of America's increasingly desperate war in Vietnam. Second Lieutenant Waino Mellas, 21 years old and just a few days into his 13-month tour, has barely arrived at Matterhorn before Bravo Company is ordered to abandon their mountain and sent deep in-country in pursuit of a North Vietnamese Army unit 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...
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1,10 € 11,00 €

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