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.

Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman
Hardcover edition
AuthorJon Krakauer
Cover artistEd Darack
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
SubjectPat Tillman
GenreBiography
PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date
September 15, 2009
Media typePrint (hardcover)
Pages416 pp.
ISBN0-385-52226-6
OCLC230729837
796.332029
LC ClassGV939.T49K73 2008
Preceded byUnder the Banner of Heaven 
Followed byThree 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]

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References

  1. "24 Frames". Los Angeles Times.


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