Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman Audiobook (Free)

The bestselling writer of Into the Wild, Into Thin Air, and Under the Banner of Heaven delivers a stunning, eloquent account of an extraordinary young man’s haunting journey.

Just 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 strolled from his $3.6 million NFL contract to enlist in the United States Army. He was deeply troubled by 9/11, and he sensed a strong moral responsibility to about Where Guys Get Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman join the fight al-Qaeda and the Taliban. Two years later, he passed away on a desolate hillside in southeastern Afghanistan.

Though obvious to most of the two dozen soldiers in the scene a ranger in Tillman’s own platoon had fired the fatal shots, the Army aggressively maneuvered to keep these details from Tillman’s wife, other family members, as well as the American public for five weeks following his death. During this time, President Bush repeatedly invoked Tillman’s name to market his administration’s foreign plan. Long after Tillman’s nationally televised memorial assistance, the Military grudgingly notified his closest relatives that he had “probably” been wiped out by friendly fire while it continued to dissemble about the facts of his loss of life and who was responsible.

In Where Guys Win Glory, Jon Krakauer pulls on Tillman’s journals and words, interviews with his wife and friends, conversations using the soldiers who served alongside him, and considerable research on the floor 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 resulted in his death. Before he enlisted in the military, Tillman was familiar to sports aficionados as an undersized, overachieving Arizona Cardinals security whose virtuosity in the defensive backfield was spellbinding. Along with his shoulder-length locks, outspoken sights, and boundless intellectual curiosity, Tillman was regarded a maverick. America was fascinated when he exchanged the bright lights and riches from the NFL for training and a buzz cut. Sent 1st to Iraq-a battle he would openly declare was “illegal as hell” -and eventually to Afghanistan, Tillman was driven by complicated, psychologically charged, sometimes contradictory notions of duty, honor, justice, patriotism, and masculine satisfaction, and he was established to serve his whole three-year dedication. But on Apr 22, 2004, his lifestyle would result in a barrage of bullets terminated by his fellow troops.

Krakauer chronicles Tillman’s riveting, tragic odyssey in engrossing details highlighting his remarkable character and personality while closely examining the murky, heartbreaking circumstances of his loss of life. Infused with the power and authenticity visitors have come to anticipate from Krakauer’s storytelling, Where Males Win Glory exposes shattering truths about guys and war.