![]() ![]() He warns of the perils to a culture’s psyche in fighting war at a remove, as we now do with unmanned drones. He reflects with crackling insight on such topics as killing, guilt, lying, loyalty, heroism. Here Marlantes uses his personal experiences as illustrations of the psychological, philosophical and spiritual dilemmas that combat soldiers face-in the field and upon returning home. ![]() But his purposes in this book are quite different from the purposes of his novel. ![]() Marlantes is an exceptional writer and his depictions here are vivid. In it, readers will discover the outlines of some of the events he heightened and fictionalized in Matterhorn. Now Marlantes has written a sparklingly provocative nonfiction book called What It Is Like to Go to War. Gritty, gripping and remarkably soulful, it offered readers a profoundly moving picture of what it was like to go to war. Last year Karl Marlantes published Matterhorn, the best novel to date about American soldiers’ experience of combat in Vietnam. ![]()
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