LW6: Karl Marlantes

New York Times best-selling author Karl Marlantes sits down with the LitWar Podcast to discuss his new novel Cold Victory, as well as why he went to war, his experiences on coming home from war, and what kept him going on his thirty-five-year journey to publication of his first novel Matterhorn. 

Karl is graduated from Yale University and was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University, before serving 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 bestselling author of Matterhorn and What It Is Like to Go to War. He lives in rural Washington.

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