What It Is Like to Go to War
Karl Marlantes • 2011
Devastation Rating
war Vietnam memoir moral injury
Our Take
Marlantes waited forty years to write about Vietnam because he needed that long to understand what it did to him. This is not a war book — it is a manual for surviving the person you become when you kill. Honest to the point of cruelty, most of it directed at himself.
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