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What It Is Like To Go To War By Karl Marlantes
After reading “What it is Like to Go to War” Karl Marlantes tells us the background, and also he leaves no uncertainty as to what it is like .The short biography of Karl Marlantes instantly informs the reader his books will not be regular fare. A National Merit Scholar, Marlantes attended Yale University. He attended Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, interrupted by his service in Vietnam as a young Lieutenant. There he was awarded the Bronze Star, the Navy Cross, and twelve Air Medals. Marlantes earned the right to be called a warrior and to educate those who have never been to war what it means to be
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