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    Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman - Softcover

    Review

    Nuanced, thorough, and chilling. . . . The arc of Tillman&#x;s life . . . echoes the trajectory of a classical hero&#x;s tale. . . . It acquires an almost legendary power. &#x;"The Oregonian"
    The fallen man at the heart of "Where Men Win Glory" quickly emerges as a classic Krakauer character. A charismatic athlete possessed of an insatiably curious mind, Tillman spurned the riches of life . . . to pursue old-fashioned notions of honor and sacrifice. He&#x;s "Into the Wild"&#x;s Chris McCandless gone to war. &#x;"Outside" Magazine
     
    Riveting. . . . Krakauer&#x;s gripping book about this extraordinary man who lived passionately and died unnecessarily sets the record straight. &#x;"USA Today"
     
    Talk about an inspired pairing of subject and author. . . . ["Where Men Win Glory"] reveals a far more complex and emotional character than the mythical American &#x;hero.&#x;

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    Atlantic Books

    Pat Tillman was well-known to American sports fans: a chisel-jawed and talented young professional football star, he was on the brink of signing a million dollar contract when, in , al-Qaeda launched terrorist attacks against his country. Driven by deeply felt moral patriotism, he walked away from fame and money to enlist in the United States Special Operations Forces. A year later he was killed &#; apparently in the line of fire &#; on a desolate hillside near the sydasiatiskt land border in Afghanistan.

    News of Tillman&#;s death shocked America. But even as the public mourned his loss, the US Army aggressively maneuvered to conceal the truth: that it was a ranger in Tillman&#;s own platoon who had fired the fatal shots.

    In Where dock Win Glory, Jon Krakauer reveals how an entire country was deliberately deceived by those at the very highest levels of the US army and government. Infused with the power and authenticity readers have come to expect from Krakauer&#;s story

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    Pat Tillman

    American football player and soldier (–)

    Patrick Daniel Tillman Jr. (November&#;6, &#;– April&#;22, ) was an American professional football player for the Arizona Cardinals of the National Football League (NFL) who left his sports career and enlisted in the United States ArmySpecial Operations in May in the aftermath of the September&#;11 attacks. His service in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as his subsequent death, received national attention, especially so when it was discovered he had been killed by friendly fire.[1]

    Tillman played college football for the Arizona State Sun Devils, earning first-team All-American honors in After four seasons in the NFL, Tillman joined the Army Rangers and served several combat tours before he was killed in the mountains of Afghanistan. At first, the army reported that Tillman had been killed by enemy fire. A month later, on May&#;28, , the Pentagon notified the Tillman family that he was actually killed by fire from h

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