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In the writer of the prize-winning, best-selling story Matterhorn, comes an excellent non-fiction book about warIn 1968, at age twenty-three, Karl Marlantes was fallen in to the highland rainforest of Vietnam, an unskilled lieutenant in command of the platoon of forty Marines who'd live or die by his choices. Marlantes lasted, but like a lot of his friends in arms, he's spent the final forty years coping with his battle experience. In What It's Like to Visit War, a deeply personal and candid look is taken by Marlantes at what it's like to see the challenge of battle, really analyzing how exactly we may better prepare our troops for war. Marlantes weaves captivating reports of his battle encounters with innovative evaluation, self examination, and his readings—from Homer towards The Mahabharata to Jung.