In What It Is Like to Go to War, Marlantes offers an unflinching true account of his time in Vietnam and the aspects of combat that soldiers are discouraged from discussing because society "simply wants us to shut up about all of this."
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2. "What It Is Like to Go to War," by Karl Marlantes
