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12 strong : the declassified true story of the horse soldiers / Doug Stanton.
Documents the post-September 11 mission during which a small band of Special Forces soldiers captured the strategic Afghan city of Mazar-e Sharif as part of an effort to defeat the Taliban, in a dramatic account that includes testimonies by Afghanistan citizens whose lives were changed by the war.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781501178511 (trade paperback)
- Physical Description: xx, 395 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm
- Edition: Scribner trade paperback edition.
- Publisher: New York, NY : Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2017.
- Copyright: ©2009
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "The amazing book that inspired the movie"--Cover. "Previously published as Horse soldiers: the extraordinary story of a band of U.S. soldiers who rode to victory in Afghanistan"--Title page verso. Includes excerpt from Doug Stanton's "The odyssey of Echo Company: the 1968 TET offensive and the epic battle to survive the Vietnam War". |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 385-395). |
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| Genre: | Personal narratives. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
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- Simon and Schuster
Now a major motion picture from Jerry Bruckheimer starring Chris Hemsworth and Michael Shannon!
âA thrilling action ride of a bookâ (The New York Times Book Review)âthe New York Times bestselling, true-life account of a US Special Forces team deployed to dangerous, war-ridden Afghanistan in the weeks following 9/11.
Previously published as Horse Soldiers, 12 Strong is the dramatic account of a small band of Special Forces soldiers who secretly entered Afghanistan following 9/11 and rode to war on horses against the Taliban. Outnumbered forty to one, they pursued the enemy army across the mountainous Afghanistan terrain and, after a series of intense battles, captured the city of Mazar-i-Sharif. The bone-weary American soldiers were welcomed as liberators as they rode into the city. Then the action took a wholly unexpected turn.
During a surrender of six hundred Taliban troops, the Horse Soldiers were ambushed by the would-be POWs. Dangerously overpowered, they fought for their lives in the cityâs immense fortress, Qala-i-Janghi, or the House of War. At risk were the military gains of the entire campaign: if the soldiers perished or were captured, the entire effort to outmaneuver the Taliban was likely doomed.
âA riveting story of the brave and resourceful American warriors who rode into Afghanistan after 9/11 and waged war against Al Qaedaâ (Tom Brokaw), Doug Stantonâs account touches the mythic. The soldiers on horses combined ancient strategies of cavalry warfare with twenty-first-century aerial bombardment technology to perform a seemingly impossible feat. Moreover, their careful effort to win the hearts of local townspeople proved a valuable lesson for Americaâs ongoing efforts in Afghanistan. With âspellbinding...action packed prose...The book reads more like a novel than a military history...the Horse Soldierâs secret mission remains the US militaryâs finest moment in what has since arguably been a muddled warâ (USA TODAY).
