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What It Is Like to Go to War
Karl Marlantes
Atlantic Monthly Press
September 2011
On Sale: August 30, 2011
272 pages
ISBN: 0802119921
EAN: 9780802119926
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
In 1968, at the age of twenty-three, Karl Marlantes was
dropped into the highland jungle of Vietnam, an
inexperienced lieutenant in command of a platoon of forty
Marines who would live or die by his decisions. Marlantes
survived, but like many of his brothers in arms, he has
spent the last forty years dealing with his war experience.
In What It Is Like to Go to War, Marlantes takes a deeply
personal and candid look at what it is like to experience
the ordeal of combat, critically examining how we might
better prepare our soldiers for war. Marlantes weaves
riveting accounts of his combat experiences with thoughtful
analysis, self-examination, and his readings—from Homer to
The Mahabharata to Jung. He makes it clear just how poorly
prepared our nineteen-year-old warriors are for the
psychological and spiritual aspects of the journey. Just as Matterhorn is already being acclaimed as acclaimed
as a classic of war literature, What It Is Like to Go to War
is set to become required reading for anyone—soldier or
civilian—interested in this visceral and all too essential
part of the human experience.
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