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Book Review Preview: Matterhorn - A Novel of the Vietnam War - By Karl Marlantes

Book Review Preview: Matterhorn - A Novel of the Vietnam War - By Karl Marlantes

Karl Marlantes’s first novel, “Matterhorn,” is about a company of Marines who build, abandon and retake an outpost on a remote hilltop in Vietnam. According to the publisher, Marlantes ­— a highly decorated Vietnam vet — spent 30 years writing this book.

 

McNamara, defense secretary during Vietnam War, dies

Robert S. McNamara, the cerebral secretary of defense who was vilified for prosecuting America's most controversial war and then devoted himself to helping the world's poorest nations, died Monday.

 

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