News Source: Contra Costa Times
| 2 months ago
Krakauer also ties the tragedy into a long line of U.S. misfires with the Taliban and al-Qaida — a pointed exercise at a time when the Afghanistan campaign is losing political and public support. The author of "Into the Wild" and "Into Thin Air,"...
News Source: Bookforum
| 2 months ago
It started with the busted tie-rods of a Humvee. It continued with the ill-advised order to split an Army Ranger platoon as the Afghan night was coming on. And it finished, on April 22, 2004, with the death by friendly fire of an exemplary young...
News Source: The New York Times
| 2 months ago
That book, which came out Tuesday from Doubleday, is about the former strong safety for the Arizona Cardinals who, after walking away from the N.F.L...The book rescues Tillman from both the spin doctors on the right, who tried to make him into an...