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Where men win glory, the odyssey of Pat Tillman, Jon Krakauer

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Where men win glory, the odyssey of Pat Tillman, Jon Krakauer

Language

eng

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individual biography

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maps

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index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Where men win glory

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

230729837

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Jon Krakauer

Sub title

the odyssey of Pat Tillman

Summary

Irrepressible individualist and iconoclast Pat Tillman walked away from his $3.6 million NFL contract in May 2002 to enlist in the United States Army. Deeply troubled by 9/11, he felt a strong moral obligation to join the fight against al-Qaeda and the Taliban. Two years later, he died on a desolate hillside in Afghanistan. Though obvious to most 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 family and the American public for five weeks following his death, while President Bush repeatedly invoked Tillman's name to promote his administration's foreign policy. Biographer Krakauer draws on his journals and letters, interviews with his wife and friends, conversations with the soldiers who served alongside him, and extensive research in Afghanistan to render this driven, complex, and uncommonly compelling figure as well as the definitive account of the events and actions that led to his death.--From publisher description

Table Of Contents

San Francisco Bay area -- Afghanistan -- Iraq -- Jessica Lynch Convoy, March 23, 2003 -- Battle of Nasiriyah, March 23, 2003 -- Movement of Tillman's Ranger Platoon, April 14-25, 2004 -- Firefight in Tillman Pass, April 22, 2004 -- Firefight in Tillman Pass, West End of Canyon, April 22, 2004

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