'' Where Men Win Glory : The Odyssey of Pat Tillman '' , a 2009 book written by Jon Krakauer , is a biography of Pat Tillman , an American football player who left his professional career and enlisted in the United States Army after the September 11 attacks . He subsequently was killed in 2004 in the US war in Afghanistan . To write the book , Krakauer drew heavily upon Tillman 's journals , interviews with the Tillman family , '' Boots On the Ground by Dusk : My Tribute to Pat Tillman '' by Mary Tillman , and extensive research on the ground in Afghanistan
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Where Men Win Glory