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Title: Where Men Win Glory Condition: New EAN: 9781848873025 ISBN: 9781848873025 Edition: Main Publisher: Atlantic Books Format: Paperback Type: Paperback Release Date: 01/08/2010 Item Height: 197mm Item Length: 128mm Item Width: 28mm Item Weight: 300g Author: Jon Krakauer Language: English Subtitle: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman ISBN-10: 1848873026 Description: 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 2001, 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 Pakistan 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 Men 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 storytelling, Where Men Win Glory exposes shattering truths about men and war. Country/Region of Manufacture: GB Genre: History Topic: Military History, Sports & Hobbies, Biography, Law & Politics Release Year: 2010 Missing Information?
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