Listen free for 30 days
-
Where Men Win Glory
- The Odyssey of Pat Tillman
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 13 hrs and 8 mins
Add to Cart failed.
Add to Wish List failed.
Remove from wish list failed.
Follow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
Buy Now for $37.53
No default payment method selected.
We are sorry. We are not allowed to sell this product with the selected payment method
Buy it with
-
Missoula
- Rape and the Justice System in a College Town
- Written by: Jon Krakauer
- Narrated by: Mozhan Marnò, Scott Brick
- Length: 11 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
From best-selling author Jon Krakauer, a stark, powerful, meticulously reported narrative about a series of sexual assaults at the University of Montana - stories that illuminate the human drama behind the national plague of campus rape.
Written by: Jon Krakauer
-
Three Cups of Deceit
- How Greg Mortenson, Humanitarian Hero, Lost His Way
- Written by: Jon Krakauer
- Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
- Length: 2 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Greg Mortenson has built a global reputation as a selfless humanitarian and children's crusader, and he's been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. He is also not what he appears to be. As acclaimed author Jon Krakauer discovered, Mortenson has not only fabricated substantial parts of his bestselling books, but has also misused millions of dollars donated by unsuspecting admirers like Krakauer himself. This is the tragic tale of good intentions gone very wrong.
-
-
eye opening
- By MOly on 2020-01-10
Written by: Jon Krakauer
-
Under the Banner of Heaven
- A Story of Violent Faith
- Written by: Jon Krakauer
- Narrated by: Jon Krakauer
- Length: 5 hrs and 24 mins
- Abridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
At the core of this book is an appalling double murder committed by two Mormon Fundamentalist brothers, Ron and Dan Lafferty, who insist they received a revelation from God commanding them to kill their blameless victims. Weaving the story of the Lafferty brothers and their fanatical brethren with a clear-eyed look at Mormonism's violent past, Krakauer examines the underbelly of the most successful homegrown faith in the United States, and finds a distinctly American brand of religious extremism.
Written by: Jon Krakauer
-
Eiger Dreams
- Ventures Among Men and Mountains
- Written by: Jon Krakauer
- Narrated by: Philip Franklin
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
No one writes about mountaineering and its attendant victories and hardships more brilliantly than Jon Krakauer. In this collection of his finest essays and reporting, Krakauer writes of mountains from the memorable perspective of one who has himself struggled with solo madness to scale Alaska's notorious Devils Thumb.
-
-
Great collection of stories
- By Konrad J. Komuniecki on 2018-12-17
Written by: Jon Krakauer
-
Into the Wild
- Written by: Jon Krakauer
- Narrated by: Philip Franklin
- Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. His name was Christopher Johnson McCandless. He had given $25,000 in savings to charity, abandoned his car and most of his possessions, burned all the cash in his wallet, and invented a new life for himself.
-
-
Dated reading
- By Marc on 2019-01-28
Written by: Jon Krakauer
-
You Are the Universe
- Discovering Your Cosmic Self and Why It Matters
- Written by: Menas C. Kafatos PhD, Deepak Chopra
- Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith
- Length: 10 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
New York Times best-selling author Deepak Chopra joins forces with leading physicist Menas Kafatos to explore some of the most important and baffling questions about our place in the world.
-
-
Mind-blowing!!
- By Katie on 2019-02-05
Written by: Menas C. Kafatos PhD, and others
-
Missoula
- Rape and the Justice System in a College Town
- Written by: Jon Krakauer
- Narrated by: Mozhan Marnò, Scott Brick
- Length: 11 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
From best-selling author Jon Krakauer, a stark, powerful, meticulously reported narrative about a series of sexual assaults at the University of Montana - stories that illuminate the human drama behind the national plague of campus rape.
Written by: Jon Krakauer
-
Three Cups of Deceit
- How Greg Mortenson, Humanitarian Hero, Lost His Way
- Written by: Jon Krakauer
- Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
- Length: 2 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Greg Mortenson has built a global reputation as a selfless humanitarian and children's crusader, and he's been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. He is also not what he appears to be. As acclaimed author Jon Krakauer discovered, Mortenson has not only fabricated substantial parts of his bestselling books, but has also misused millions of dollars donated by unsuspecting admirers like Krakauer himself. This is the tragic tale of good intentions gone very wrong.
-
-
eye opening
- By MOly on 2020-01-10
Written by: Jon Krakauer
-
Under the Banner of Heaven
- A Story of Violent Faith
- Written by: Jon Krakauer
- Narrated by: Jon Krakauer
- Length: 5 hrs and 24 mins
- Abridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
At the core of this book is an appalling double murder committed by two Mormon Fundamentalist brothers, Ron and Dan Lafferty, who insist they received a revelation from God commanding them to kill their blameless victims. Weaving the story of the Lafferty brothers and their fanatical brethren with a clear-eyed look at Mormonism's violent past, Krakauer examines the underbelly of the most successful homegrown faith in the United States, and finds a distinctly American brand of religious extremism.
Written by: Jon Krakauer
-
Eiger Dreams
- Ventures Among Men and Mountains
- Written by: Jon Krakauer
- Narrated by: Philip Franklin
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
No one writes about mountaineering and its attendant victories and hardships more brilliantly than Jon Krakauer. In this collection of his finest essays and reporting, Krakauer writes of mountains from the memorable perspective of one who has himself struggled with solo madness to scale Alaska's notorious Devils Thumb.
-
-
Great collection of stories
- By Konrad J. Komuniecki on 2018-12-17
Written by: Jon Krakauer
-
Into the Wild
- Written by: Jon Krakauer
- Narrated by: Philip Franklin
- Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. His name was Christopher Johnson McCandless. He had given $25,000 in savings to charity, abandoned his car and most of his possessions, burned all the cash in his wallet, and invented a new life for himself.
-
-
Dated reading
- By Marc on 2019-01-28
Written by: Jon Krakauer
-
You Are the Universe
- Discovering Your Cosmic Self and Why It Matters
- Written by: Menas C. Kafatos PhD, Deepak Chopra
- Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith
- Length: 10 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
New York Times best-selling author Deepak Chopra joins forces with leading physicist Menas Kafatos to explore some of the most important and baffling questions about our place in the world.
-
-
Mind-blowing!!
- By Katie on 2019-02-05
Written by: Menas C. Kafatos PhD, and others
-
Into Thin Air
- Written by: Jon Krakauer
- Narrated by: Philip Franklin
- Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
One of the inspirations for the major motion picture Everest, starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Keira Knightley. This is the true story of a 24-hour period on Everest when members of three separate expeditions were caught in a storm and faced a battle against hurricane-force winds, exposure, and the effects of altitude, which ended the worst single-season death toll in the peak's history.
-
-
Amazing
- By Tia on 2019-12-20
Written by: Jon Krakauer
-
Under the Banner of Heaven
- A Story of Violent Faith
- Written by: Jon Krakauer
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 12 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
This extraordinary work of investigative journalism takes listeners inside America’s isolated Mormon Fundamentalist communities, where some 40,000 people still practice polygamy. Defying both civil authorities and the Mormon establishment in Salt Lake City, the renegade leaders of these Taliban-like theocracies are zealots who answer only to God.
-
-
Informative and disturbing.
- By Amazon Customer on 2020-09-02
Written by: Jon Krakauer
-
The Calling
- A Life Rocked by Mountains
- Written by: Barry Blanchard
- Narrated by: Barry Blanchard
- Length: 14 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
With heart-pounding descriptions of avalanches and treacherous ascents, Barry Blanchard chronicles his transformation from a poor Native American/white kid from the wrong side of the tracks to one of the most respected alpinists in the world. At 13 he learned to rappel when he joined the 1292 Lord Strathcone's Horse Army Cadets. Soon kicked out for insubordination, he was already hooked on climbing and saw alpinism as a way to make his single mother proud and end his family's cycle of poverty.
-
-
stunning book read by one of the alpinism greats
- By owen mcleod on 2021-10-02
Written by: Barry Blanchard
-
Classic Krakauer
- 'Mark Foo's Last Ride,' 'After the Fall,' and Other Essays from the Vault
- Written by: Jon Krakauer
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 5 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
In these fascinating essays, Jon Krakauer shows why he is considered one of the finest investigative journalists of our time. The articles, gathered together here for the first time, take us from an otherworldly cave in New Mexico to the heights of Mt. Everest; from the foot of the volcano Mt. Ranier to the Gates of the Arctic in Alaska; from the notebook of one Fred Becky, who has catalogued the greatest unclimbed mountaineering routes on the planet, to the last days of legendary surfer Mark Foo.
-
-
Super boring and repetitive
- By Dawn on 2023-01-04
Written by: Jon Krakauer
-
Shackleton
- Written by: Ranulph Fiennes
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 11 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
In 1915, Sir Ernest Shackleton's attempt to traverse the Antarctic was cut short when his ship, Endurance, became trapped in ice. The disaster left Shackleton and his men alone at the frozen South Pole, fighting for their lives. Their survival and escape is the most famous adventure in history.
-
-
Great story, Great narration.
- By jenn on 2022-08-19
Written by: Ranulph Fiennes
-
Transformed
- A Navy SEAL’s Unlikely Journey from the Throne of Africa, to the Streets of the Bronx, to Defying All Odds
- Written by: Remi Adeleke
- Narrated by: Remi Adeleke
- Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Author Remi Adeleke takes listeners back to stories from his childhood as Nigerian royalty to losing his father early in life and being financially stripped of everything by the Nigerian government. He delves into being raised by a single mother in the Bronx and doesn’t shy away from the illegal activities that threatened to derail his future. Having gone through times of intense struggle, pressure, and failure, Adeleke shares his inspiring story of overcoming the odds, even when it didn’t make sense; and ultimately experiencing true personal transformation.
-
-
AWESOME!!
- By Amazon Customer on 2021-03-01
Written by: Remi Adeleke
Publisher's Summary
Like the men whose epic stories Jon Krakauer has told in his previous best sellers, 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.
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.
In Where Men Win Glory, Jon Krakauer draws on Tillman's journals and letters, interviews with his wife and friends, conversations 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 of the events and actions that led to his death.
Before he enlisted in the army, Tillman was familiar to sports aficionados as an undersized, overachieving Arizona Cardinals safety whose virtuosity in the defensive backfield was spellbinding. With his shoulder-length hair, outspoken views, and boundless intellectual curiosity, Tillm...
More from the same
What listeners say about Where Men Win Glory
Average Customer RatingsReviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews.
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Mr Geo R
- 2021-02-12
Good audio choice
So I enjoyed the book and found it very informative. Having said that, I think I chose a good book to try audio on - I can envision a lot of the setup for the war stories being a very dry read
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Alex Martin
- 2021-01-14
A great look into why
Great in-depth look into the life and factors at play in the death of Army Ranger/Arizona Cardinal Pat Tillman. Told in Krakauer's notable informed style.
Despite what some other reviews state, there is no political bias - all information is taken from documents and noted as such.
-
Overall

- Daniel
- 2009-09-23
Good book, painful narration
Enjoying the content of the book, but it sounds like it's being read by Agent Smith from the Matrix. Slow, over-enunciation, and dramatic emphasis on words and phrases that needn't be dramatically emphasized.
37 people found this helpful
-
Overall

- Yennta
- 2009-10-01
Wonderful book, will have to read it in book form
I want my money back. Scott Brick's narration is so melodramatic, his voice just SOBS, saying mundane things like, "he was just under six feet tall," sob. What a weight of schmalz in that voice. It's like every sentence is a recitation of a prayer. It's like the devastating announcements that occur in soap operas. Jeez. Give me a break! P.S. Jon Krakauer is always great. I'll have to buy the book, now.
29 people found this helpful
-
Overall

- Phil
- 2010-05-27
Great Read
Thoroughly enjoyable book. Very well researched and written, and a heart wrenching story as well. Pat Tillman had a humility most of us should aspire to and was a man of great principles. His story alone is no more important than any other soldier killed in action, however the attempts by Government and Army officials to use it to their advantage (against his will) are appalling.
Scott Brick's narration is excellent (no idea how one reviewer thought he was condescending). Highly recommended audiobook.
18 people found this helpful
-
Overall

- Clifford
- 2009-12-07
Not his best.
Krakauer is one of my favoite authors, but this is not his best work. The story of Pat Tilman is riveting and as usual, well researched, but the book devolves into a repetitively preachy "expose." I don't think anyone out there would still be to shocked to find out the Army tries to cover up it own mistakes. The narrator's tone is also annoying and dripping with an indignant air. I would have enjoyed it more if I had read it myself so I could skip over the syrup.
15 people found this helpful
-
Overall

- Thomas Hart
- 2009-10-27
Leftist anti-Bush diatribe
I have throughly enjoyed all of Krakauer's books until this one. It started off as well as any of his other books, but there were telltale signs early on. Still, given my experience with his other books, I assumed he'd keep his reporting to the facts. When his long rant about the 2000 election was over, filled with one sided inaccuracies about "selection", I almost stopped right there. Assuming he'd get back on topic, I continued. Unfortunately his biases did as well. Continuing with his personal obsession against Bush, the book became unreadable. His lack of objectivity on such an important subject has now caused me to rethink how his obsessions may have colored his other works as well.
14 people found this helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story

- A. Bares
- 2015-07-16
Read a different Book on Tillman
The author hates Bush and drags the story far beyond Tillman. Biased, boring and not well done.
13 people found this helpful
-
Overall

- Ron
- 2009-10-28
Could have been better
The author lets his own political opinion enter into the narrative of the story. Some of his cited facts about the wars are more opinion, that as someone who was involved in some of those actions knows they are the typical incorrect group speak put out by reporter
10 people found this helpful
-
Overall

- Brad
- 2009-10-26
CONSERVATIVES READ THIS!!!
I have always liked and respected Krakauer's work. 'Into thin Air' and 'Under the Banner of Heaven' are very good reads. I would sill highly recommend these two selections even after his political hatchet job in 'Where Men Win Glory'. The book starts out like any Krakauer work. It was insightful, direct to the facts and well written. Near the end of the first section Krakauer inexplicably concocts a rant about the 2000 presidential election. Krakauer details the 5-4 vote by the Supreme Court to stop the count but neglects to mention the more important vote of 7-2 declaring the Florida Supreme Court's decision for a selective recount unconstitutional. In another chapter he documents several occasions when Bush was warned about imminent attacks from sleeper cells in the US and how he discarded them but failed to mention how Clinton had numerous opportunities to try to take out Bin Laden but didn't. The rest of the book is filled with a non-stop attack at the Bush administration that could have been taken directly from moveon.org's web pages. In the past Krakauer has always presented the facts and let the reader decide. This time he let his true colors show through. Thus is not an honest work by Krakauer. It is a partisan piece of leftist propaganda. It is a shame that he chose Tillman's story to vent his leftist vitriol.
10 people found this helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story

- Mary Zaleski
- 2016-05-24
Politics, politics and more politics
Shame on the author for using the Tillman story to put forth his own political views. In the process he made Pat Tillman look like an arrogant whiner.
9 people found this helpful
-
Overall

- Phil
- 2010-04-17
Author takes leftist license
It's really a shame that Krakauer exploited the heroic life of Pat Tillman to use as an excuse to flaunt his extreme leftist and unpatriotic view of the war on terrorism. Obviously, Pat Tillman did not feel the same. There were some interesting parts to the story but the flash back and forth nature of the writing was too frequent and disjointed. Much of the story had nothing to do with Pat Tillman. The story could have been told much better by a more objective author.
8 people found this helpful