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What It Is Like To Go To War Kindle Edition
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Karl Marlantes
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In 1968, at the age of 22, Karl Marlantes abandoned his Oxford University scholarship to sign up for active service with the US Marine Corps in Vietnam. Pitched into a war that had no defined military objective other than kill ratios and body counts, what he experienced over the next thirteen months in the jungles of South East Asia shook him to the core. But what happened when he came home covered with medals was almost worse. It took Karl four decades to come to terms with what had really happened, during the course of which he painstakingly constructed a fictionalized version of his war, MATTERHORN, which has subsequently been hailed as the definitive Vietnam novel.
WHAT IT IS LIKE TO GO TO WAR takes us back to Vietnam, but this time there is no fictional veil. Here are the hard-won truths that underpin MATTERHORN: the author's real-life experiences behind the book's indelible scenes. But it is much more than this. It is part exorcism of Karl's own experiences of combat, part confession, part philosophical primer for the young man about to enter combat. It It is also a devastatingly frank answer to the questions 'What is it like to be a soldier?' What is it like to face death?' and 'What is it like to kill someone?'
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LanguageEnglish
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PublisherCorvus
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Publication date1 Oct. 2011
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File size1342 KB
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From the author of MATTERHORN - 'America's great Vietnam novel' (Sunday Times), 'a novel of astonishing power and insight' (Observer) - comes a vivid, visceral examination of what happens to a young man when he is sent into battle, based on Karl's own experiences as a decorated Marine.
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- ASIN : B005IP4RDI
- Publisher : Corvus; Main edition (1 Oct. 2011)
- Language : English
- File size : 1342 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Print length : 273 pages
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97,984 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- 34 in Biographies of the Vietnam War
- 75 in Vietnam War Biographies (Books)
- 78 in History of Veterans
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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. His debut novel, Matterhorn, will be published in April 2010 by Grove/Atlantic.
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Karl Marlantes says what war is REALLY LIKE - warts and all - from the perspective of someone who was actually in the thick of it. This is not the memoir of some General with a chest full of medals who seldom if ever came within fifty miles or so of the muck and bullets and the blood and the screaming and the pain and the abject misery of it all, it is by a guy who was very much up close and personal with 'the other side'; who describes the pointlessness of 'the body count' which the aforementioned Generals and their ilk were so concerned about, and which were in any event completely inaccurate; it is about poor leadership, tactical decisions that wasted lives unnecessarily; it is about the total lack of post combat reflection which doubtless would have gone a long way towards alleviating the nightmares that would come later; it is about the cold shoulder shown by so many of the American people to those who went to fight their countries war, whether they wanted to or not.
Marlantes raises many issues.
This is a book by someone who has had the courage to bare his soul to the effect the killing fields of Vietnam had on him and others.
It is a remarkable and very frank and honest account.
His story is about Vietnam, but it could be about any war, anywhere and everywhere at any time in history
From afar in Canada I demonstrated against Vietnam but never did anything that berated the U.S. servicemen on the line.
An excellent book that should be mandatory reading for all ranks in all armies.
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