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

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Used - Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Doubleday, 2010. First Edition. Hardback, Dustjacket. Very Good, slight wear and yellowing of pages,.

Doubleday, September 2009. Hardcover. Used - Very Good.

Doubleday. Good in Good dust jacket. 2009. Stated First Edition; First Printing. hardback. 0385522266 . 9.4 X 6.5 X 1.8 inches; 416 pages .

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New York: Doubleday, 2009. 383 pages. Illustrated. Commentary from the dust jacket: "...Tillman was considered a maverick. America was fascinated when he traded the bright lights and riches of the NFL for boot camp and a buzz cut. Sent first to Iraq--a war he would openly declare was 'illegal as hell'--and eventually to Afghanistan. Tillman was driven by complicated, emotionally charged, sometimes contradictory notions of duty, honor, justice, patriotism, and masculine pride, and he was determined to serve his entire three-year commitment. But on April 22, 2004, his life would end in a barrage of bullets fired by his fellow soldiers.". 1st Ed., 1st Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Suspicious Deaths .

H. Good.

Like the men whose epic stories Jon Krakauer has told in his previous bestsellers, Pat Tillman was an irrepressible individualist and iconoclast. In May 2002, Tillman walked away from his $3.6 million NFL contract to enlist in the United States Army. He was deeply troubled by 9/11, and 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 southeastern Afghanistan.
Though obvious to most of the two dozen soldiers 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 wife, other family members, and the American public for five weeks following his death. During this time, President Bush repeatedly invoked Tillman's name to promote his administration's foreign policy. Long after Tillman's nationally televised memorial service, the Army grudgingly notified his closest relatives that he had probably been killed by friendly fire… Leer más

"Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman" by Jon Krakauer. Doubleday First Edition 2009. Biography. Maps by Matthew Ericson. Book Design by Caroline Cunninghan. Postscript. Acknowledgements.. Notes. Bibliography. Index. 383pp. Fine copy although with a small inked through on the front paste down end-paper with a Fine dust jacket.

H. Fair.