What is it really like to go to war? World War I began in 1914, after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, and lasted until 1918. Sebastian Junger Knows Why Young Men Go to War. . . Here's What Could Happen Next. Clip: What It Is Like To Go To War February 18, 2012 | Clip Of What It Is Like To Go To War This clip, title, and description were not created by C-SPAN. . It textures Karl Marlantes’s war novel “Matterhorn,” published last year, and provides the mournful keynote to his new nonfiction book, “What It Is Like to Go to War.” From the author of the New York Times best seller Matterhorn, which has sold over 250,000 copies, What It Is Like to Go to War is a powerful nonfiction book about the experience of combat and how inadequately we prepare our young men and women for the psychological and spiritual stresses of war. War is as old as humankind, but in the past, warriors were prepared for battle by ritual, religion, and literature—which also helped bring them home. I was impressed by what he had to say, and after reading What It Is Like To Go To War I can see that my first impression of him was the right one. . ... no longer have a sense of what it means to be a man—and some of them go to war to find out. Unlike most gods and goddesses in polytheistic religions, monotheistic deities have traditionally been portrayed in their mythologies as commanding war in order to spread their religion. A war god in mythology associated with war, combat, or bloodshed.They occur commonly in both monotheistic and polytheistic religions.. Whitfield first produced the song – an obvious anti-Vietnam War statement – with The Temptations as the original vocalists. "War" is a counterculture era soul song written by Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong for the Motown label in 1969. Marlantes survived, but like many of his brothers in arms, he has spent the last forty years dealing with his war experience. In his first work of nonfiction, Marlantes takes a deeply personal and candid look at what it is like to experience the ordeal of combat, critically examining how we might better prepare our soldiers for war. Russia and China Go War Against America. “What It Is Like to Go to War is a well-crafted and forcefully argued work that contains fresh and important insights into what it’s like to be in a war and what it does to the human psyche.”—The Washington Post “Marlantes is the best American writer right now on war . Clip: What It Is Like To Go To War In What It Is Like to Go to War, Marlantes takes a deeply personal and candid look at the experience and ordeal of combat, critically examining how we might better prepare our young soldiers for war. “What It Is Like to Go to War is a well-crafted and forcefully argued work that contains fresh and important insights into what it’s like to be in a war and what it does to the human psyche.”—The Washington Post “Marlantes is the best American writer right now on war . Filled with terror, pain and grief, it also brings exhilaration, and a profound sense of purpose. I first encountered Karl Marlantes while watching Ken Burns documentary The Vietnam War.