Karl Marlantes - Adult Fiction, Vietnam War
Former island resident Karl Marlantes is a Yale
graduate and Rhodes scholar who served as a marine in the Vietnam War. He
has been awarded numerous awards for his conduct and bravery in combat.
In 2010 Marlantes published his first book
Matterhorn. The novel
became a
New York Times bestseller and the
New York Times Book
Review described it as a 'brilliant account of war'. Marlantes' second
book
What It Is Like to Go to War (2011) has enjoyed equally high
praise. The non-fiction work takes a candid and wrenching look at the
author's own combat experiences. The book's intentions, says the
New Yorker,
are threefold - "to help soldiers-to-be understand what they are in for;
to help veterans come to terms with what they've seen and done; and to help
policymakers understand what they are asking of the men they send into
combat."
What It Is Like to Go to War was chosen by Amazon as
the #3 best book of 2011. For more information on this author go to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Marlantes.
