Description
| Product ID: | 9780857893802 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | What It Is Like To Go To War |
| Authors: | Author: Karl Marlantes |
| Page Count: | 272 |
| Subjects: | Autobiography: general, Autobiography: general, Autobiography: historical, political and military, Military history: post-WW2 conflicts, Autobiography: historical, political & military, Vietnam War, Vietnam, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period) |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating From the author of MATTERHORN - 'America's great Vietnam novel' (Sunday Times), 'a novel of astonishing power and insight' (Observer) - comes a vivid, visceral examination of what happens to a young man when he is sent into battle, based on Karl's own experiences as a decorated Marine. In 1968, at the age of 22, Karl Marlantes abandoned his Oxford University scholarship to sign up for active service with the US Marine Corps in Vietnam. Pitched into a war that had no defined military objective other than kill ratios and body counts, what he experienced over the next thirteen months in the jungles of South East Asia shook him to the core. But what happened when he came home covered with medals was almost worse. It took Karl four decades to come to terms with what had really happened, during the course of which he painstakingly constructed a fictionalized version of his war, MATTERHORN, which has subsequently been hailed as the definitive Vietnam novel. |
| Imprint Name: | Corvus |
| Publisher Name: | Atlantic Books |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2012-07-01 |
