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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