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What It Is Like to Go to War
From the author of the award-winning, best-selling novel Matterhorn, comes a brilliant nonfiction book about war In...
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From the author of the award-winning, best-selling novel Matterhorn, comes a brilliant nonfiction book about war 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.
Author: Karl Marlantes
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press
Published: 08/30/2011
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.70w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780802119926
Award: Indies Choice Book Awards - Honor Book
Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 05/01/2011 pg. 61
Publishers Weekly 06/20/2011
Kirkus Reviews 08/15/2011
People 11/12/2011 pg. 60
New York Times Book Review 09/18/2011 pg. 15
Library Journal 10/15/2011 pg. 94
New Yorker (The) 10/10/2011 pg. 128
Shelf Awareness 08/30/2011
Shelf Awareness 08/25/2011
Christian Century 12/13/2011 pg. 25
New Yorker (The) 12/19/2011 pg. 139
Christian Century 12/27/2011 pg. 36
BookPage 09/01/2011
About the Author
A graduate of Yale University and a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University, Karl Marlantes served as a Marine in Vietnam, where he was awarded the Navy Cross, the Bronze Star, two Navy Commendation medals for valor, two Purple Hearts, and ten air medals. He is the author of Matterhorn, which won numerous prizes, including the William E. Colby Award given by the Pritzker Military Library, the Center for Fiction's Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize, the 2011 Indies' Choice Award for Adult Debut Book of the Year, and the Marine Corps Heritage Foundation's James Webb Award for Distinguished Fiction. He lives in rural Washington.
Author: Karl Marlantes
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press
Published: 08/30/2011
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.70w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780802119926
Award: Indies Choice Book Awards - Honor Book
Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 05/01/2011 pg. 61
Publishers Weekly 06/20/2011
Kirkus Reviews 08/15/2011
People 11/12/2011 pg. 60
New York Times Book Review 09/18/2011 pg. 15
Library Journal 10/15/2011 pg. 94
New Yorker (The) 10/10/2011 pg. 128
Shelf Awareness 08/30/2011
Shelf Awareness 08/25/2011
Christian Century 12/13/2011 pg. 25
New Yorker (The) 12/19/2011 pg. 139
Christian Century 12/27/2011 pg. 36
BookPage 09/01/2011
About the Author
A graduate of Yale University and a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University, Karl Marlantes served as a Marine in Vietnam, where he was awarded the Navy Cross, the Bronze Star, two Navy Commendation medals for valor, two Purple Hearts, and ten air medals. He is the author of Matterhorn, which won numerous prizes, including the William E. Colby Award given by the Pritzker Military Library, the Center for Fiction's Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize, the 2011 Indies' Choice Award for Adult Debut Book of the Year, and the Marine Corps Heritage Foundation's James Webb Award for Distinguished Fiction. He lives in rural Washington.
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