What It Is Like to Go to War

by Karl Marlantes

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802119921
• ISBN13: 9780802119926
• Release Date: August 2011
• Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.7" x 8.3"