Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman
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The bestselling leader of Into the Wild, Into Thin Air, and Under the Banner of Heaven delivers a stunning, eloquent account of a remarkable young man’s haunting journey.
Like the men whose epic tales Jon Krakauer has told in his previous bestsellers, Pat Tillman was an irrepressible individualist and iconoclast. In May 2002, Tillman walked away from his $3.6 million NFL contract to enlist in the United States Army. He was deeply troubled by 9/11, and he felt a strong moral obligation to join the fight against al-Qaeda and the Taliban. Two years later, he died on a forbidding hillside in southeastern Afghanistan.
Though obvious to most of the two dozen soldiers on the scene that a ranger in Tillman’s own platoon had fired the fatal shots, the Army aggressively maneuvered to keep this information from Tillman’s wife, additional family tree members, and the American public for five weeks following his death. During this time, President Bush repeatedly invoked Tillman’s name to promote his administration’s foreign policy. Long after Tillman’s nationally televised memorial service, the Army grudgingly told his closest relatives that he had “probably” been killed by friendly fire while it nonstop to dissemble about the details of his death and who was reliable.
In Where Men Win Glory, Jon Krakauer draws on Tillman’s journals and letters, interviews with his wife and friends, conversations with the soldiers who served alongside him, and wide research on the ground in Afghanistan to render an intricate mosaic of this driven, complex, and exceptionally compelling figure as well as the definitive account of the events and actions that led to his death. Before he enlisted in the army, Tillman was familiar to sports aficionados as an puny, overachieving Arizona Cardinals safety whose virtuosity in the defensive backfield was spellbinding. With his shoulder-part hair, candid views, and infinite intellectual curiosity, Tillman was considered a maverick. America was fascinated when he traded the bright lights and riches of the NFL for boot camp and a buzz cut. Sent first to Iraq—a war he would openly declare was “illegal as hell” —and eventually to Afghanistan, Tillman was driven by intricate, emotionally charged, sometimes contradictory notions of duty, honor, justice, jingoism, and masculine pride, and he was determined to serve his entire three-year commitment. But on April 22, 2004, his life would end in a barrage of bullets fired by his fellow soldiers.
Krakauer chronicles Tillman’s riveting, tragic odyssey in engrossing detail highlighting his remarkable character and personality while closely examining the murky, heartbreaking circumstances of his death. Infused with the power and authenticity readers have come to expect from Krakauer’s storytelling, Where Men Win Glory exposes shattering truths about men and war.
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The bestselling leader of Into the Wild, Into Thin Air, and Under the Banner of Heaven delivers a stunning, eloquent account of a remarkable young man’s haunting journey.
Like the men whose epic tales Jon Krakauer has told in his previous bestsellers, Pat Tillman was an irrepressible individualist and iconoclast. In May 2002, Tillman walked away from his $3.6 million NFL contract to enlist in the United States Army. He was deeply troubled by 9/11, and he felt a strong moral obligation to join the fight against al-Qaeda and the Taliban. Two years later, he died on a forbidding hillside in southeastern Afghanistan.
Though obvious to most of the two dozen soldiers on the scene that a ranger in Tillman’s own platoon had fired the fatal shots, the Army aggressively maneuvered to keep this information from Tillman’s wife, additional family tree members, and the American public for five weeks following his death. During this time, President Bush repeatedly invoked Tillman’s name to promote his administration’s foreign policy. Long after Tillman’s nationally televised memorial service, the Army grudgingly told his closest relatives that he had “probably” been killed by friendly fire while it nonstop to dissemble about the details of his death and who was reliable.
In Where Men Win Glory, Jon Krakauer draws on Tillman’s journals and letters, interviews with his wife and friends, conversations with the soldiers who served alongside him, and wide research on the ground in Afghanistan to render an intricate mosaic of this driven, complex, and exceptionally compelling figure as well as the definitive account of the events and actions that led to his death. Before he enlisted in the army, Tillman was familiar to sports aficionados as an puny, overachieving Arizona Cardinals safety whose virtuosity in the defensive backfield was spellbinding. With his shoulder-part hair, candid views, and infinite intellectual curiosity, Tillman was considered a maverick. America was fascinated when he traded the bright lights and riches of the NFL for boot camp and a buzz cut. Sent first to Iraq—a war he would openly declare was “illegal as hell” —and eventually to Afghanistan, Tillman was driven by intricate, emotionally charged, sometimes contradictory notions of duty, honor, justice, jingoism, and masculine pride, and he was determined to serve his entire three-year commitment. But on April 22, 2004, his life would end in a barrage of bullets fired by his fellow soldiers.
Krakauer chronicles Tillman’s riveting, tragic odyssey in engrossing detail highlighting his remarkable character and personality while closely examining the murky, heartbreaking circumstances of his death. Infused with the power and authenticity readers have come to expect from Krakauer’s storytelling, Where Men Win Glory exposes shattering truths about men and war.
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While it’s excellent to have some online video, the two segments here don’t do much. The first has no narration (I skipped through it and establish none). The second, shorter video, has JK narration, but it’s honestly meager. That vid is not even shot by JK.
Too terrible his camera went down. What we see here is only a hint of some possibly fine footage.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Pat Tillman is a right American hero, a man who turned his broad back on a long-term chance as a professional football player in favor of enlistment in a grubby unpopular war in far-off Afghanistan. Jon Krakauer, am otherwise passable storyteller, rumor has it that intending to slot in Mr. Tillman as a central figure in the past context of the interminable conflicts that have plagued this forbidding warlike region for millennia, opts for the historiography of the place, leaving the tale, motivation and quality of the hero himself diminished. If you’re seeking to know and appreciate Pat Tillman as a transcendent human being, look elsewhere; if, on the additional hand, you want to know more about the antecedents of the conflict in Afghanistan, there are additional, much superior sources. Wikipedia would be a pretty excellent–and far superior–place to start.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
If you want to read a biography find another book. One of the best books I ever read was “Into Thin Air” I factually could feel myself gasping as I read it. Now after reading parts of this book, as I could not end this book, I marvel what fabrications could have been in “Into Thin Air”. I bought a biography about Pat Tillman and all I got was chapter after chapter about why the Iraq war was a total farce. Book so terrible I probably will dismiss any more books by Krakauer.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Not a book worth considering. Seems like hero worship on the part of the leader. Just microscopic dull drivel. A waste of money and time. Junk
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Jon Krakauer’s prior books are some of my favorite tales, and I was looking forwards to “Where Men Win Glory” as Mr. Tillman’s fleeting life is truly American and reasonably unique. Mr. Tillman’s wonderful and sad life tale, and Mr. Krakauer prior skills as a fine and honest leader, was the reason that I bought this book as soon as it was available.
But, what really is in this book is a truly fantastic personal tale that is poorly written. Mr. Tillman’s tale is light years yet to be of Mr. Krakauer’s writing skills. Plus, we receive massive amounts of one-sided political rubbish. Rubbish from Gore was the real winner in Florida [never mind that independent newspapers did an indepth review of all the Florida voting and the finding was that Bush really did win the Florida election] to Bush lied about the WMD’s in Iraq, which is just left-wing silly/stupid talk.
Why do authors judge that they are so vital that they need to bore the rest of us with their personnal political viewpoints? Most of us just want to read an appealing tale that has right and honest information. Mr. Tillman deserve a real leader to tell his tale, and it is sad that Mr. Krakauer is not that leader.
Mr. Krakauer, this book is border line dis-honest…and not nearly up to your prior books standards. Also, I could care less what you judge political.
You own me $9.99.
Richard M. Troutte
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5