| Description |
598 pages : map ; 24 cm |
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regular print |
| Summary |
In the tradition of Norman Mailer's "The Naked and the Dead" and James Jones's "The Thin Red Line," Marlantes tells the powerful and compelling story of a young Marine lieutenant, Waino Mellas, and his comrades in Bravo Company, who are dropped into the mountain jungle of Vietnam as boys and forced to fight their way into manhood |
| Notes |
"Published by Atlantic Monthly Press in association with El León Literary Arts, [Berkeley, Calif.]"--Title page verso |
| Subject |
United States. Marine Corps -- Fiction.
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Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Fiction.
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War -- Fiction.
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Vietnam Conflict.
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| Genre/Form |
War fiction.
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Fictional Work.
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Fiction.
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| LC no. |
2010549578 |
| ISBN |
080211928X |
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0802145310 |
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9780802119285 |
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9780802145314 |
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