What It Is Like to Go to War

“A precisely crafted and bracingly honest” memoir of war and its aftershocks from the New York Times –bestselling author of Matterhorn ( The Atlantic ). In 1968, at the age of twenty-three, Karl Marlantes was dropped into the highland jungle of Vietnam, an inexperienced lieutenant in command of forty Marines who would live or die by his decisions. In his thirteen-month tour he saw intense combat, killing the enemy and watching friends die. Marlantes survived, but like many of his brothers in arm