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Amazon.com Review Amazon Best Books of the Month, September 2011 : With unflinching honesty, bestselling author Karl Marlantes captures What It Is Like to Go to War in his compassionate, powerful narrative on Vietnam. Marlantes does not shy away from recounting experiences that, outside the arena of war, are horrifying or embarrassing and addresses a soldier’s self-imposed “code of silence” as an attempt to fit back in to a society that “simply wants us to shut up about all of this.” While American pop culture celebrates the warrior spirit and winning the battle, “reconciling the moral conduct we are taught...with the brutal acts we do in war has been a problem for warriors of good conscience for centuries.” Marlantes tempers the brutal truths of fear, power games, and courage with a thoughtful prescription for our soldiers’ well-being; caring for our soldiers and their families differently will benefit society as a whole. In What It Is Like to Go to War , Marlantes sets a new standard for understanding the experience of war. -- Seira Wilson Review “Karl Marlantes has written a staggeringly beautiful book on combat—what it feels like, what the consequences are and above all,

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Author

Karl Marlantes

Publisher

Grove Press

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9780802119926

Category

history

Subjects

Military, Fiction, Memoir

Rating

3.95 / 5 (3,017 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14