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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
By lawyeraau
The author weaves a well-written, gripping narrative of two worlds colliding, that of NFL football player turned Army Ranger, Pat Tillman, and that of the US government and its war against Al-Qaeda. It is a uniquely American story straight out of the heartland.Based upon Pat Tillman's journals and letters, as well as interviews with his wife, family, and friends, the book reveals that Pat Tillman was an interesting, introspective, and complex man, an alpha male with an inquiring mind and a good heart. He embodied the best of the American man, while at the same time was somewhat of an enigma and an intriguing juxtaposition of contrasts, admirable yet flawed.When he decided to turn down a lucrative multi-million dollar NFL contract and do his bit for his country, he most certainly considered the possibility of dying in combat when he was sent to the war zone. What I doubt he envisioned was the possibility at dying as a result of "friendly fire", though this is often a reality of war. Nor did he envision the perfidy of his government in the event that this did happen.Pat Tillman was a good soldier who had his doubts about the war but remained committed to keeping his word and serving his country, despite being presented with the opportunity to get out of the Army, while the going was good. It was an opportunity that he declined, as he chose, instead, to be true to his word. The government, on the other hand, went to tremendous lengths to fuel pro war propaganda in order to bamboozle the American public into thinking that one and one equaled three.Unfortunately, Army, as well as Bush administration officials, chose to act without honor when it came to Pat Tillman, using him as propaganda against his wishes and lying to his family and to the American public about the circumstances surrounding his death. Their perfidy is a clear contrast to the values cherished by Pat Tillman. The actions of the Army and Bush Administration officials are a stain upon the honor of this country. They should be ashamed, but I somehow doubt that they are. Pat Tillman stands in marked contrast to these officials, as he was everything that they are not.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
By LittleMoon
betrayal of the young by the old, of idealists by cynics and of troops by politicians." Chris Hedges, A Culture of Atrocity, quoted by Krakauer.This story of an American NFL star killed by friendly fire in Afghanistan isn't exactly light reading, but it is thought-provoking. Krakauer creates a strong cause-and-effect narrative detailing the growing up of a young American, Pat Tillman, interspersed with concurrent events across the world in Afghanistan. There is no real connection until the fateful occurrences on September 11 2001 whose impact would be brought to bear upon a generation of soldiers, and families, of which the Tillman's were just one.What was special about Pat Tillman's death, is the way in which it was part of an army cover-up, sanctioned at the highest levels. It was only after tireless campaigning primarily by his mother, who refused to be placated by the conclusions of numerous flawed internal investigations, that the "truth" finally emerged. Krakauer makes a telling comparison with the Jessica Lynch story: the bottom line being that both she and Tillman became unwitting "heroes" of a propaganda machine that was never going to let ideas such as truth and reality get in the way of good publicity.The fact that, once the deliberate cover-up emerged, those who perpetrated it escaped with perhaps a slight tarnish to their careers, doesn't sit well with our author who finds it: "deeply disturbing, in no small part because one of the most culpable malfeasants turns out to be an exalted military leader who's been shielded from accountability or punishment". Ironically, the man in question, McChrystal, was promoted by President Obama to Commander of US Forces in Afghanistan in June 2009. In a weird twist, he was dismissed a year later for "mocking" the Obama administration; the President alerted by an article in Rolling Stone magazine.Where Men Win Glory is characteristic Krakauer, combining the same skill for bringing a subject to life that we find in Into the Wild, for re-creating times and places with insider knowledge (he spent 3 months with ground forces on the Afghanistan/Pakistan border), and for delivering it to us in a package that, in his own words, applauds: "clarity, economy and subtlety (to say nothing of substance) more than literary flash."Krakauer is part of a small but significant journalistic tradition that immerses the writer in the world they are reporting, and he aspires to "persuade readers to regard old truths in a sceptical light" by trying to "shed light on the truth" even if the truth is "always in flux and often contradictory." His sources listed by chapter, a detailed bibliography and an index make up the final 40+ pages of the book: the author feels like someone we can trust.This work could have been written as an effective pacifist polemic, but Krakauer refrains from any such agenda; he would have been guilty of betraying his subject otherwise - Tillman was adamant that his status as a NFL star should not be used by the army for promotional purposes. The result of this, of course, is that the facts speak for themselves, and the reader is left to make their own judgements. Krakauer, maintains a difficult balance between intimacy and distance; this might cloud the waters somewhat, although who would argue that this is anything other than how it should be?
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
By Big Jim
I have read and enjoyed all of Jon Krakauer's previous books and I think he has excelled himself here. You will know the gist of the story by now - read some of the other reviews if you don't - but if you want to read a book that conveys the connections and disparities between the civilian world and the military, a book that quite eloquently shows why young men want to fight, a book that describes the mayhem and ferocity of modern warfare, a book that confirms what we all suspect about the political machinations that go on in Washington and elsewhere or a book which portrays the effect that a death in combat has on friends and family then this is the book for you. In turns heart-warming and harrowing and never less than enthralling, this is a quite excellent and different take on modern warfare and its consequences and with any justice will join the likes of A Rumor of War, Chickenhawk and Dispatches in the canon of great modern American War books.
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