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Irrepressible individualist and iconoclast Pat Tillman walked away from his $3.6 million NFL contract in May 2002 to enlist in the United States Army. Deeply troubled by 9/11, 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 Afghanistan. Though obvious to most 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 family and the American public for five weeks following his death, while President Bush repeatedly invoked Tillman's name to promote his administration's foreign policy. Biographer Krakauer draws on his journals and letters, interviews with his wife and friends, conversations with the soldiers who served alongside him, and extensive research in Afghanistan to render this driven, complex, and uncommonly compelling figure as well as the definitive account of the events and actions that led to his death.--From publisher description
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Where Men Win Glory, Jon Krakauer
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- Année de publication
- 2009
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- Titre
- Where Men Win Glory
- Langue
- Anglais
- Auteurs
- Jon Krakauer
- Éditeur
- Doubleday
- Publié
- 2009
- Format
- rigide
- Pages
- 416
- ISBN10
- 0385522266
- ISBN13
- 9780385522267
- Séries
- Mots clés
- Nonfiction, Sciences sociales, Thème historique, Histoires vraies, Biographies, Histoire, Sciences politiques & Politique, Sport, Politique, Histoire militaire, Sport & Activités de plein air, Prose de guerre, Guerres, Reportages, Football, Biographies de politiciens, Voyage, Biographies de sportifs, Cruauté, terreur, Afghanistan, Irak, Taliban, Football américain
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- Where men win glory
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- 4,05 sur 5
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- Irrepressible individualist and iconoclast Pat Tillman walked away from his $3.6 million NFL contract in May 2002 to enlist in the United States Army. Deeply troubled by 9/11, 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 Afghanistan. Though obvious to most 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 family and the American public for five weeks following his death, while President Bush repeatedly invoked Tillman's name to promote his administration's foreign policy. Biographer Krakauer draws on his journals and letters, interviews with his wife and friends, conversations with the soldiers who served alongside him, and extensive research in Afghanistan to render this driven, complex, and uncommonly compelling figure as well as the definitive account of the events and actions that led to his death.--From publisher description