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Lädt ... Auf den Feldern der Ehre - Die Tragödie des Soldaten Pat Tillman (2009)von Jon Krakauer
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Mr. Krakauer cobbled together his book in a spirit of desperation. Though he set out in search of Mr. Tillman’s whole story, he didn’t find what he was looking for. There is a master’s hand evident in this particular depiction of events in a life that will end too soon, meticulously built of pieces carefully chiseled from recent international history, political intrigue, first-hand reporting, thoughtful reading, and a feel for what is most human. The author, like his subject, purposefully strides out on his great battlefield too. Those who have spent time in the military and have seen it struggle not just with war but with everyday barracks life tend to err on the side of incompetence, while those who never have -- such as Krakauer -- tend to suspect conspiracy. The best-selling author Jon Krakauer has now told the full story in “Where Men Win Glory.” The combination of Krakauer and Tillman seems hard to resist: Krakauer is a masterly writer and reporter; “Into Thin Air,” his account of a disastrous climbing expedition on Mount Everest, is as riveting and harrowing a book as I’ve ever read. With Tillman, you would think he’d have all he needed to fashion an epic narrative. Unfortunately, he fails to pull it off. Krakauer -- whose forensic studies of the Emersonian Man in books such as "Into Thin Air" and 'Into the Wild" yield so much insight -- has turned in a beautiful bit of reporting, documenting Tillman's life with journals and interviews with those close to him. AuszeichnungenPrestigeträchtige AuswahlenBemerkenswerte Listen
Irrepressible individualist and iconoclast Pat Tillman walked away from his $3.6 million NFL contract in May 2002 to enlist in the United States Army. Deeply troubled by 9/11, 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 Afghanistan. Though obvious to most 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 family and the American public for five weeks following his death, while President Bush repeatedly invoked Tillman's name to promote his administration's foreign policy. Biographer Krakauer draws on his journals and letters, interviews with his wife and friends, conversations with the soldiers who served alongside him, and extensive research in Afghanistan to render this driven, complex, and uncommonly compelling figure as well as the definitive account of the events and actions that led to his death.--From publisher description. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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Im ersten Teil des Buches beschreibt Krakauer die politischen Verhältnisse und die Geschichte der schon über 30 Jahre andauernden Konflikte Afghanistans, mit der Sowjetunion, den umliegenden Staaten, den Amerikanern und den ethnischen Gruppen der eigenen Bevölkerung. Die Gründung der Taliban, die Auswirkung des 11. Septembers und Bin Laden sind ebenso Thema seiner umfangreichen Recherchen und geben einen guten Überblick über die Gesamtsituation des Landes vor und während und nach Pats Einsatz in Afghanistan.
Im zweiten Teil wird dann die Geschichte von Pat Tillman ausführlich geschildert (inklusive seiner Einsätze als Profi-Footballspieler, was ein wenig zu detailliert geraten ist, vor allem für Football-Laien). Krakauer führte viele Gespräche mit den Eltern, der Ehefrau und der Brüder. Dadurch erfährt man auch, was für ein Mensch Pat war. Von Kindesbeinen an eine beeindruckende Persönlichkeit, leider wurde er nur 23 Jahre alt... ( )