Indeed, if we haven't spent any time there, many of us may just picture a single famous mountain, like the Matterhorn ... The Via Alpina hiking trail is a 1,200-mile, eight-nation tribute to ...

War novels are tough. Either they seem unrealistic or so realistic your insides churn by the bloody exoticness of it all. “Matterhorn” was no exception. But I couldn’t put it down. I read ...