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What It Is Like to Go to War

What It Is Like to Go to War Hardcover - 2011

by Karl Marlantes

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Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated, 2011. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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  • Title What It Is Like to Go to War
  • Author Karl Marlantes
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 272
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated, New York
  • Date 2011
  • Features Bibliography, Deckle Edges, Dust Cover, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # G0802119921I3N00
  • ISBN 9780802119926 / 0802119921
  • Weight 0.95 lbs (0.43 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.3 x 5.7 x 1 in (21.08 x 14.48 x 2.54 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1950-1999
    • Cultural Region: Southeast Asian
  • Library of Congress subjects Vietnam War, 1961-1975, Combat - Psychological aspects
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2012371127
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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  • BookPage, 09/01/2011, Page 0
  • Christian Century, 12/13/2011, Page 25
  • Kirkus Reviews, 08/15/2011, Page 0
  • Library Journal, 05/01/2011, Page 61
  • New York Times Book Review, 09/18/2011, Page 15
  • New Yorker (The), 10/10/2011, Page 128
  • People, 11/12/2011, Page 60
  • Publishers Weekly, 06/20/2011, Page 0
  • Shelf Awareness, 08/30/2011, Page 0

About the author

A graduate of Yale University and a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University, Karl Marlantes served as a Marine in Vietnam, where he was awarded the Navy Cross, the Bronze Star, two Navy Commendation medals for valor, two Purple Hearts, and ten air medals. He is the author of Matterhorn, which won numerous prizes, including the William E. Colby Award given by the Pritzker Military Library, the Center for Fiction's Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize, the 2011 Indies' Choice Award for Adult Debut Book of the Year, and the Marine Corps Heritage Foundation's James Webb Award for Distinguished Fiction. He lives in rural Washington.