What It Is Like To Go To War

Karl Marlantes has written a staggeringly beautiful book on combat . . . In my eyes he has become the preeminent literary voice on war of our generation. He is a natural storyteller and a deeply profound thinker . . . As this generation of warriors comes home, they will be enormously helped by what Marlantes has written--I'm sure he will literally save lives. --Sebastian Junger <br> Marlantes is the best American writer right now on war and the extreme costs to society of sending young men and women off to combat without much of a safety net for them when they land back home. . . . With What It Is Like to Go to War a second Marlantes book resides on the top shelf of American literature. --Anthony Swofford, author of Jarhead <br> Marlantes brings candor and wrenching self-analysis to bear on his combat experiences in Vietnam, in a memoir-based meditation whose intentions are three-fold: to help soldiers-to-be understand what they're in for; to help veterans come to terms with what they've seen and done; and to help policymakers know what they're asking of the men they send into combat. -- The New Yorker <br> A precisely crafted and bracingly honest book. -- The Atlantic <br> What It Is Like to Go to War is a well-crafted and forcefully argued work that contains fresh and important insights into what it's like to be in a war and what it does to the human psyche. -- The Washington Post <br> With an intellect as sharp and critical as Marlantes', and a temperament not afraid to display confusion or remorse, What It Is Like is more than worth the effort of any reader. -- Los Angeles Times <br> What It Is Like to Go to War ought to be mandatory reading by potential infantry recruits and by residents of any nation that sends its kids--Marlantes's word--into combat. --San Francisco Chronicle <br> Marlantes delivers one of the most powerful meditations on the meaning of war and its impact. A necessary book as America welcomes home a new ge