Where men win glory : the odyssey of Pat Tillman / Jon Krakauer.
Krakauer, Jon.
2009
GV939.T49 K73 2009 (Mapit)
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Title Where men win glory : the odyssey of Pat Tillman / Jon Krakauer.
Author Krakauer, Jon.
Edition 1st ed.
ISBN 9780385522267
0385522266
Imprint New York : Doubleday, c2009.
Language English
Description xxv, 383 p. : maps ; 25 cm.
Call Number GV939.T49 K73 2009
Dewey Decimal Classification 958.104/7 B
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.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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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