The New York Times Book Review – Sebastian Junger:Chapter after chapter, battle after battle, Marlantes pushes you through what may be one of the most profound and devastating novels ever to come out of Vietnam?or any war. It's not a book so much as a deployment, and you will not return unaltered?Matterhorn is a raw, brilliant account of war that may well serve as a final exorcism for one of the most painful passages in American history.