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“Karl Marlantes has written a staggeringly beautiful book on combat—what it feels like, what the consequences are and above all, what society must do to understand it. 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 who not only illuminates war for civilians, but also offers a kind of spiritual guidance to veterans themselves. 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“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“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“Marlantes is the best American writer right now on war . . . 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“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“In this thoughtful, literate work of self-exorcism, Marlantes tells tales of incredible bravery as well as brutality.”—People Magazine“A precisely crafted and bracingly honest book."—The Atlantic“Marlantes knows what he writes. . . Raw, unsettling honesty pervades the work.”—Time.com“Marlantes has written a sparklingly provocative nonfiction book. . . He is an exceptional writer and his depictions here are vivid.”—BookPage “A gripping, first-person plea to consider the impact on the human spirit of being a soldier.”—Huffington Post“Karl Marlantes, author of the excellent What It Is Like To Go To War, cautions his audience to understand the cost to the human psyche in sending others to kill in our names or for policies decided by politicians determined to use (and abuse) the power entrusted to their office.”—Daily Planet“Karl Marlantes’ What It Is Like to Go to War is a deeply personal account of dealing with his harrowing time as a Marine Corps officer in Vietnam. . . . Marlantes’ fiction might be just too wrenching for some readers to believe.”—Logos“This absolutely unique and lucid personal account and analysis will be read with profit by scholars, general readers, and most particularly, by veterans of close combat. . . . The author is qualified by experience, education, temperament, and skill as a writer to make penetrating observations. Many are graphic, bold, and shocking. Some are erudite; some are ethereal; all are worthy of careful consideration. . . . His method is to reflect on a point important to him, to illustrate it with an anecdote or a combat experience, and to mull it over in sparkling prose that has the reader hanging on every word. . . . Mastery of our language and the creative use of poetic devices and images make his pronouncements memorable. . . . Marlantes has joined a short list of authors whose experience, sensitivity, and skill enable them to share wisdom with those among us who would understand.”—Parameters“What it is Like to Go to War is already considered by many a modern classic. . . . The former Marine has three main goals in this unflinchingly honest look at what it means to be a soldier in a war: to let potential soldiers understand what to expect, to help veterans better cope with what they’ve experienced, and to help policy makers truly comprehend what it means when they send combat troops into a war zone.”—Bradenton Herald“To say that this book is brilliant is an understatement—Marlantes is the absolute master of taking the psyche of the combat veteran and translating it into words that the civilian or non-veteran can understand. I have read many, many books on war and this is the first time that I've ever read exactly what the combat veteran thinks and feels—nothing I have ever read before has hit home in my heart like this book.”—Gunnery Sergeant Terence D’Alesandro, 3rd Batallion, 5th Marines, U.S. Marine Corps“Wrenchingly honest. . . . Digging as deeply into his own life as he does into the larger sociological and moral issues, Marlantes presents a riveting, powerfully written account of how, after being taught to kill, he learned to deal with the aftermath.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)“A valiant effort to explain and make peace with war’s awesome consequences for human beings.”—Kirkus Reviews “What It Is Like to Go to War offers profound insight on how we must prepare our youth who become our warriors for their hard and uncompromising journey through war’s hell and back home again.”—Vietnam Magazine“With war such a part of contemporary American life, this book is deeply important, as timely and urgent as contemporary on-the-ground reporting from Afghanistan and Iraq.”—The Minneapolis Star Tribune“A sound debunking of anything smacking of the glory of warfare—but written with compassion, honest and wit for men and now women who fight and for all of those who care about them.”—St. Louis Dispatch“A slim spiritual guide. . . Marlantes’s book is a sincere plea for better soldiers and veterans.”—Seattle Weekly“What It Is Like to Go to War is a courageous, noble and intelligent grapple with myth, history, and spirituality that beautifully elevates the cultural conversation on the role of the military in today’s world. It is an emotional, honest, and affecting primer for all Americans on war and the national psyche, and we ignore this book at our own peril.”—Ed Conklin, Chaucer’s Books, Santa Barbara
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Product details
Paperback: 272 pages
Publisher: Grove Press; Reprint edition (September 11, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0802145922
ISBN-13: 978-0802145925
Product Dimensions:
5.5 x 1 x 8.2 inches
Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
4.4 out of 5 stars
482 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
#13,627 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
Very good book if you're interested in a soldier's perspective of war, and are interested in the emotional and mental effects vs. explosions and action. The author is correct - our soldiers are vastly unprepared for the damage war can do to their psyches. After getting the audiobook for a road trip, I got this for my wife, who teaches yoga and is interested in techniques and solutions for trauma survivors - she was initially "WTF??" and ended up very impressed (and she's a smarty-pants PhD). By the way, the audio version is excellent.
As a fellow Vietnam Vet I found a lot of truth in what he wrote. Brutally realistic and honest. It was uncomfortably easy to go back there with him in the book. Not sure I would have the same reaction if I were reading it just as a novel. I felt flashes of anger and sadness as I read the book because I was really reading about myself in many of the passages. Not sure why I rated it 4 instead of 5 - probably more due to too many negative memories about anything associated with Vietnam than anything to do with the book itself.
Should be required reading for every soldier, sailor, airman, or marine before they sign on the dotted line to join the military. Also, EVERY politician should sign an affidavit attesting that s/he read this attentively and understands the lessons (and responsibilities) outlined here. Come to think of it, if you are planning to utter the words "thank you for your service" you must first read this book, AND the author's novel "Matterhorn" so that you understand what service really, really means before you say those words. Thank you Karl Marlantes. Thank you very, very much.
This book was written by a Marine Lt who volunteered for combat duty in the Vietnam war. He, like so many combat veterans before and after him, came home with unknown mental problems that affected both himself in his career, and his wife and children. I can relate to his story because I was a child of a WWII combat veteran that had what we now know is PTSS. It affected me and all my siblings and our mother. It was a terrible childhood for all of us, and we are still dealing with the after affects of the unholy way in which we were raised. We still tip toe around for fear of raising the ire of our father and releasing the beast within him, even though he is long dead. War truly is bad for children and all other living things, more than just the soldier is affected. the families, and society in general pays a great cost of the mental wounds these poor men bring home from the wars with them. The author gives spiritual insight into controling these demons before going into war, and gives suggestions on how our military can give these men and women tools to deal with unresolved anger and pain and nightmares. If you are a child of war, or are considering joining the military, please, please, read this book and try to follow some of the spiritual guidelines offered so you can deal with what has happened to you already, or is going to happen to you when you have to do the most unspeakable thing we ask of our children, taking the life of another human. Even if you are not affected by war in any way, (that's just what YOU think, I assure you, we are all affected by our countries wars) you should read this book and see what a marine volunteer has to say about the cavalier way in which our "leaders" are so non chalant about committing our children to war. In his opinion, nothing short of the loss of our freedoms is reason enough to go to war. Oil, land, etc, to enrich the already fabulously wealthy is an unjustifiable reason to kill even one of our children. Whether you are a Hawk, or a Dove, if you are a person of morals, you will find this book a breath of fresh air, telling us the truth about war. It offers suggestions on our now popular mantra, "To bring Democracy to the world". Not every country is ready, or even deserving of the lives of our children to attempt to bring them Democracy. It tells us to demand of our "leaders" the knowledge of whether the war will require just a short time in combat and then all boots out, or whether it will require the committment of thousands of soldiers for decades to change the thinking of people whose minds are three or four centuries behind the rest of the civilized world. Please DEMAND your child read this book before he/she joins the military! There are other, better ways to serve mankind than to kill people and destroy countries for our "leaders" to then give contracts to their buddies to make trillions of dollars on rebuilding what we have just destroyed. We all need to open our eyes. War is NOT glamorous.
Any veteran or first responder Can benefit from this book. It’s a very candid and Honest look at facing darkness and what ways we could prepare our military and first responders better. This guy is intelligent and has the real world experience - rare. He isn’t some academic goober armchair quarterback. Wish I’d have found this book earlier. It’s a great compliment to Dr Ed Ticks books War and the Soul and Warriors Return, Steven Pressfields Warrior Ethos, Sebestian Junger Tribe, and is good at relating the basics of depth/analytical psych to the life of a warrior which is needed more than our current VA and general society’s emphasis on CBT and heavy medications. Why aren’t we preparing or helping heal our warriors and first responders with more holistic methods? This book is a great start to think about that question.
This is a beautiful book. Thoughtful, personal, well researched, and superbly written. If you haven't read Matterhorn yet, read that book first, wonder for an hour or two about how much of that story actually happened, or could have happened, then read What It Is Like to Go to War. It could be the novel's companion guide, since virtually every scene that the author describes in Matterhorn is based on his personal experience in Vietnam. At the risk of slighting the author's creative ability (which is considerable) I have to believe after reading this book that Matterhorn pretty much wrote itself.I found that the books title, What It Is Like To Go To War, is somewhat misleading. It is much more than a first person description of leading a charge in combat, or watching your fellow soldiers get wounded and killed. That's all in there, but it is mixed in with an examination of the whole psychology of being a soldier, before, during and after combat. It discusses leadership, motivation, politics and personalities. It is about what it takes to be a modern warrior, the scars fighting leaves behind, and what it takes to return to normal after combat is over. The insight and scholarship in this work are first rate. You will come away having learned something about human nature under the most extreme conditions, and acquire a new respect for our fighting men (at least most of our fighting men). It should be required reading for all US officers.
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