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    About the Author

    Karl Marlantes grew up in Seaside, Oregon. He was a National Merit Scholar, attended Yale University, and was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford. He served as a lieutenant in the United States Marine Corps during the Vietnam War. He received the Navy Cross, two Navy Commendation Medals for valor, two show more Purple Hearts and ten Air Medals. His first book, Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War, was written in , but wasn't published until His other work, What It Is Like to Go to War, was published in (Bowker Author Biography)show less

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    Karl Marlantes on Chronicling the Early Cold War Years

    Karl Marlantes’ Matterhorn, published in and based on his service as a much-decorated Marine during the Vietnam War, has become a wartime classic, linked with All Quiet on the Western Front. In Deep River, his second novel, Marlantes, whose maternal grandparents came from Finland, wrote about Finnish immigrants to the U.S. during the early years of the twentieth century.

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    His new novel, Cold Victory, combines his visceral sense of wartime with a sophisticated awareness of Finnish culture and terrain and the complexities of postwar diplomacy and intelligence gathering in a country that was nearly absorbed into the Soviet Union. His narrative is crisp, empathetic, and highly visual, beginning with the opening lines: “She’d followed Arnie Koski a long way from Edmond, Oklahoma. Louise Koski was now standing on the open passenger deck of the Stockholm-Turku ferry as it forme

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    Karl Marlantes

    American writer (born )

    Karl Arthur Marlantes (born December 24, ) is an American author and Vietnam War veteran. He has written four books: Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War&#;(), What It Is Like to Go to War&#;(), Deep River (), and Cold Victory&#;().

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    Marlantes grew up in Seaside, Oregon, a small, coastal logging town.[3][4] He played football and was student body president at Seaside High School, from which he graduated in [5] His father was the school principal.[6]

    He won a National Merit Scholarship and attended Yale University, where he was a member of Jonathan Edwards College and Beta Theta Pi,[7] and played as wing forward in the rugby team.[8] During his time at Yale, Marlantes trained in the Marine Corps Platoon Leaders Class.[9] He was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship at University College, Oxford.[10] He returned to Oxfor