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From the writer of the bestselling and award-winning Matterhorn comes a brilliant nonfiction book about war and the emotional and spiritual toll it requires on those who battle. "I had written this book generally to come quickly to terms with my very own experience of combat. So far-reading, writing, thinking-that has bought out thirty years." In 1969, at the age of twenty-three, Karl Marlantes was dropped into the highland jungle of Vietnam, an inexperienced lieutenant in command word of your platoon of forty marines who would live or perish by his decisions. Marlantes survived, but like many of his brothers in arms, he has put in the previous forty years coping with his war experience. In his first work of nonfiction, Marlantes takes a deeply personal and candid check out what it is like to experience the ordeal of combat, critically examining how we might better make our military for war. Equally Matterhorn has already been acclaimed a classic of war books, What IT REALLY IS Like to Head to War is set to be required reading for anyone-soldier or civilian-interested in this visceral and all-too-essential part of the human experience. Karl Marlantes, a cum laude graduate of Yale School and Rhodes Scholar at Oxford School, was a sea in Vietnam, where he was awarded the Navy Combination, the Bronze Superstar, two Navy Commendation Medals for valor, two Purple Hearts, and ten Air Medals. He has resided and traveled worldwide and now creates full time. He and his better half, Anne, have five children and go on a tiny lake in Washington.
