Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman by Jon Krakauer

Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman

Jon Krakauer

555 pages first pub 2008 (view editions)

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A reflective reader who willingly confronts grief and moral complexity in order to examine the human costs of war and the fragile ideals of honor and duty will find this book compelling.

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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 an...

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