WHERE MEN WIN GLORY(ISBN=) 英文原版

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　　The bestselling author of Into the Wild, Into Thin Air, and Under
the Banner of Heaven delivers a stunning, eloquent account of a
remarkable young man’s haunting journey.
　　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 while it continued to
dissemble about the details of his death and who was
responsible.
　　In Where Men Win Glory, Jon Krakauer draws on Tillman’s journals
and letters, interviews with his wife and friends, conversations
with the soldiers who served alongside him, and extensive research
on the ground in Afghanistan to render an intricate mosaic of this
driven, complex, and uncommonly compelling figure as well as the
definitive account of the events and actions that led to his death.
Before he enlisted in the army, Tillman was familiar to sports
aficionados as an undersized, overachieving Arizona Cardinals
safety whose virtuosity in the defensive backfield was
spellbinding. With his shoulder-length hair, outspoken views, and
boundless intellectual curiosity, 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.
　　Krakauer chronicles Tillman’s riveting, tragic odyssey in
engrossing detail highlighting his remarkable character and
personality while closely examining the murky, heartbreaking
circumstances of his death. 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.

　　This edition has been updated to reflect new developments and
includes new material obtained through the Freedom of Information
Act.
　　Pat Tillman walked away from a multimillion-dollar NFL contract
to join the Army and became an icon of post-9/11 patriotism. When
he was killed in Afghanistan two years later, a legend was born.
But the real Pat Tillman was much more remarkable, and considerably
more complicated than the public knew…
　　A stunning account of a remarkable young man’s heroic life and
death, from the bestselling author of Into the Wild, Into Thin Air,
and Under the Banner of Heaven.

　　Jon Krakauer is the author of Eiger
Dreams, Into the Wild, Into Thin Air, and Under the Banner
of Heaven and is the editor of the Modern Library Exploration
series.