Anchor Books</br></br>Product Description</br></br><b>This edition has been updated to reflect new developments and includes new material obtained through the Freedom of Information Act.</b><br><br>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...<br><br>A stunning account of a remarkable young man's heroic life and death from the bestselling author of <b>Into the Wild</b> <b>Into Thin Air</b> and <b>Under the Banner of Heaven</b>.</br></br>Amazon.com Review</br></br><strong>Book Description</strong><br />The bestselling author of <em>Into the Wild</em> <em>Into Thin Air</em> and <em>Under the Banner of Heaven</em> delivers a stunning eloquent account of a remarkable young mans haunting journey. <br /><em><br /></em>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.  <br /><br />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. <br /><br />In <em>Where Men Win Glory</em>?? Jon Krakauer draws on Tillman??s journals and letters?? interviews with his wife and fri"ons 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<em> </em>of the events and actions that led to his death. Bef