Where Men Win Glory

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Mylz Voss
Mr. Wallace
Asian Studies, Section 4
15 January 2017
Analytical Book Review
The story, Where Men Win Glory, written by Jon Krakauer, is a powerful biography about an American Football player named Pat Tillman, who abandoned his professional football career and walked away from a 3.6 million dollar contract with the Arizona Cardinals and enlisted himself into the United States Army after facing the tragedy that occurred on nine-eleven. Pat Tillman was seen as a person with a old fashioned way of thinking and a man that held a ton of masculine pride for his country and himself. Pat Tillman truly believed that after the tragic event that took place on nine-eleven, he felt a strong obligation to serve his country and fight against …show more content…

Jon Krakauer is famously known for his books and articles about mountaineering and narrative non-fiction books. At the age of eight years old, Krakauer was introduced into the sport of mountaineering by his father. When Jon was in his late twenties, early thirties, he worked as a carpenter, fishermen, and a writer. Many of Jon's articles about mountain climbing appear to show up in many of his publications including, Rolling Stone, National Geographic, and The New Yorker. Jon Krakauer is the best selling author of Where Men Win Glory and many other bestselling non-fiction books such as, Into Thin Air, Into the Wild, and Under the Banner of Heaven. All of these books portray an extraordinary, revealing portrayal of a young man's haunting expedition. John received a degree in environmental science from Hampshire college in Massachusetts in 1976. A few days after graduating, Jon Krakauer spent around three to five weeks alone in the wilderness of Alaska and climbed a new route called the Devil's Thumb, his experiences were well described in previous books like, Into the Wild and Eiger Dreams. Jon Krakauer's most knowledgeable mountain climb was the directed climb to Mount Everest which was greatly known as the 1996 Mount Everest disaster. The truthful memory of this event would be told in the book "Outside", and continued in the book Into Thin Air, in which I read last year for a book report. In saying …show more content…

In the book, Where Men Win Glory, Jon Krakauer summarizes Pat Tillman’s mesmerizing tragedy of a journey in captivating detail which emphasizes Pat Tillman’s heartbreaking way of death. The readers expect Jon Krakauer to give them a powerful and well written storytelling book, Where Men win Glory, which explains the entire truth about men in the world and war on the battlefield in Afghanistan. Within each chapter, the author gives us more and more detail about Pat Tillman’s life and the journey leading up to his death in a platoon due to friendly fire. In the beginning of the book the author talks about Pat Tillman’s baseball career in middle school, which lead him to play football in high school. Pat Tillman was an all-around athlete and was very good at baseball but wanted to pursue his football career, which eventually lead him into the NFL. Pat Tillman rejected his million dollar contract offer and enlisted as a private into the United States of America Army, due to the viscous nine eleven attacks in New York. After the movement of troops to Afghanistan, Pat Tillman was shot by one his his teammates on the battlefield, which was reported as friendly

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