What It Is Like to Go to War

Name: What It Is Like to Go to War
Rating: 4 (1 reviews)
Author: Karl Marlantes
ISBN: 9780802145925

Karl Marlantes • 2011

Devastation Rating

Emotionally Ruined

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Our Take

Marlantes waited forty years to write about Vietnam because he needed that long to understand what it did to him. This is not a war book — it is a manual for surviving the person you become when you kill. Honest to the point of cruelty, most of it directed at himself.

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► War Memoirs — The Truth They Don’t Teach ► War and PTSD — The Soldiers Who Came Home

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