![]() ![]() It is also a heartfelt message to the society and policy makers who sent those men from across generations to war. It speaks to the veterans of the Vietnam War and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, as a map for finding closure. However, What It Is Like does have a different motive from Matterhorn. Having read both books, I am convinced that Matterhorn blurs the line between fiction and memoir, and that What It Is Like to Go to War is an almost required companion piece to Matterhorn. Marlantes says Matterhorn was fiction, written for him and his comrades. His second book, What It Is Like to Go to War, is a powerful, non-fiction complement. Thirty years after he left the war, he wrote the much-acclaimed novel Matterhorn, a fictional work based on his year in combat. Karl Marlantes is part of that preservationist, introspective, phenomenon. Some have written to claim a place in history, others have pursued that elusive catharsis called closure. Since the Vietnam War ended, many of its veterans have recorded their martial legacy in a variety of literary forms. ![]() Book Review - What It Is Like to Go to War, by Karl Marlantes Close ![]()
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