In Jon Krakauer’s nonfiction book Where Men Win Glory, the work expresses a view of realism that is eye awakening, but has bizarre shifts that might lose your focus if you like strong internal consistency. The biography of Pat Tillman is mixed with Middle Eastern History in the beginning of the novel which is very distracting if you picked up the book thinking that it would describe his life in a straightforward manner. Jon Krakauer can go off tangent both in describing the History of the Middle East and Pat Tillman’s life; especially the history of the Middle East. Jon Krakauer would just switch from mass killings to Pat Tillman’s glorious youth years in high school. “…Afghans doing their best to kill other Afghans. During Pat’s high school years, as he was celebrating his youth, asserting his masculinity, and winning admirers on the football field, Afghanistan was sinking to new depths of misery” (Krakauer 25). He would transition like this numerous times and it felt like watching a great documentary on a person, but being distracted by infomercials on Middle Eastern History. The author’s point for doing this is for the reader to be more informed before reading on Pat’s military life, but it is hard when the reader is catapulted from a nice biography on a great person to how horrible life is in the Middle East. The description of the Middle East both in the historical setting and thru Pat’s experience there express a description of realism that gives you a sense that extreme evil and violence exists in the world. The story of Pat Tillman is an inspiring story, but is filled with violence in the Middle East that never allows the reader to fly away to an unrealistic dream like world. Even the story of Pat Tillman expresses how human life is filled with failure and depressing times; he, the hero, died over in Iraq which reminds anyone who reads this book that no one is immortal. “Bryan O’Neal testified, “I remember hearing what was thought as running water…I remember seeing a stream of blood…I then saw what appeared to be blood and tissue” (Krakauer 319). This was an account from a fellow soldier that witnessed Pat’s last moments of his life; Pat risked and died painfully to save the life of Private Bryan O’Neal. The story does not end with a happy ending, but a sad and depressing one; the author makes the reader feel like he/she grew up with Pat as great friend, but Pat dies in the end, making the reader feel like he/she had lost a loved one. The book is a recommended read if you are a fan of nonfiction history, but if you like an easy read, then this book might be difficult to read because it jumps around, and at points makes you feel like you are being bombarded with facts.