What It Is Like to Go to War by Karl Marlantes

The author, a decorated Vietnam veteran, knows about war, and his thoughts about combat, coping with war memories, and helping soliders re-enter daily life “couldn’t be more timely.”

(Atlantic Monthly, $25)

“Karl Marlantes knows what he writes,” said Matt Gallagher in Time.com. The author of the acclaimed war novel Matterhorn is a decorated Vietnam veteran who has killed and seen comrades killed, and who has spent the past 40 years seeking solace from combat’s lasting psychological wounds. In this ambitious book, he juggles several goals: to provide future soldiers with a blunt preview of what they will face in combat, to help returning veterans cope with their memories, and to give civilians and political leaders a sense of how best to help such warriors re-enter daily life. The result is a work of “raw, unsettling honesty.” Given how many soldiers are returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, it “couldn’t be more timely.”

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