Where Men Win Glory
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. 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.
 Hardcover edition | |
| Author | Jon Krakauer |
|---|---|
| Cover artist | Ed Darack |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Subject | Pat Tillman |
| Genre | Biography |
| Publisher | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group |
Publication date | September 15, 2009 |
| Media type | Print (hardcover) |
| Pages | 416 pp. |
| ISBN | 0-385-52226-6 |
| OCLC | 230729837 |
| 796.332029 | |
| LC Class | GV939.T49K73 2008 |
| Preceded by | Under the Banner of Heaven |
| Followed by | Three Cups of Deceit |
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]
gollark: Anyway, by perpetuating the "GB is base 2" thing, you aid the confusion which allows HDD makers to ship mildly less storage than they otherwise might, and which is generally kind of irritating if you need precise units in things.
gollark: If we amputate 8 fingers from all humans by force, we will finally enter a golden age of binary prefixes.
gollark: Specialized binary prefixes let you use base 2 if you want to for some reason but use the more consistent and easier to manipulate base 10.
gollark: Programmers like base 2, but all other stuff is mostly done in base 10 and the prefixes were designed around that.
gollark: Because it's the standard for other units and we use base 10?
References
- "24 Frames". Los Angeles Times.
External links
- "Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman". Amazon.com. Retrieved 2010-06-28.
- 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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