Jeff Lacy

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In his searing novel Matterhorn, the Marine veteran Karl Marlantes, who received a Navy Cross and numerous other decorations as a young lieutenant, vividly evoked the kind of war the Marines fought. The title derives from the fictional Fire Support Base Matterhorn, a mountain peak “shrouded by cold monsoon rain and clouds” that was “flattened and shorn of vegetation to accommodate an artillery battery of 105-millimeter howitzers.” Before long this hill had become “a sterile wasteland of smashed trees, tangled logging slash, broken C-ration pallets, empty tin cans, soggy cardboard containers, ...more
The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam
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