Karl Marlantes’s debut novel, Matterhorn , and his nonfiction account of combat, What It Is Like to Go to War , were both New York Times bestsellers and have sold over half a million copies combined across all formats. An enormous critical success, Matterhorn won the Center for Fiction’s 2010 Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize and was named a New York Times Notable Book, among many other accolades. Marlantes is a key talking head in Ken Burns and Lynn Novick’s monumental 10-part, 18-hour...