Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman

Hardcover edition
Author	Jon Krakauer
Cover artist	Ed Darack
Language	English
Subject	Pat Tillman
Genre	Biography
Publisher	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date	September 15, 2009
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (hardcover)
Pages	416 pp.
ISBN	0-385-52226-6
OCLC	230729837
Dewey Decimal	796.332029
LC Class	GV939.T49K73 2008
Preceded by	Under the Banner of Heaven
Followed by	Three Cups of Deceit

Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman, a 2009 book written by Jon Krakauer, is a biography of Pat Tillman, an American football player who left his professional career and enlisted in the United States Army after the September 11 attacks. He subsequently was killed in 2004 in the US war in Afghanistan by friendly fire, an incident which the US government attempted to cover up. To write the book, Krakauer drew heavily upon Tillman's journals, interviews with the Tillman family, Boots On the Ground by Dusk: My Tribute to Pat Tillman by Mary Tillman, and extensive research on the ground in Afghanistan.

Criticisms

While at a Sundance screening of the documentary film The Tillman Story (2010), Tillman's youngest brother Richard was asked about Krakauer's book. His response was "that guy's a piece of ..."^[1]

References

External links

• Krakauer, Jon (15 September 2009). Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman. National Geographic Books. ISBN 978-0385522267.
• Filkins, Dexter (2009-09-08). "Book Review : The Good Soldier". The New York Times. Retrieved 2010-06-28.
• After Words interview with Krakauer on Where Men Win Glory, September 19, 2009

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