12 strong : the declassified true story of the horse soldiers

Summary: 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: print
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).