12 strong : the declassified true story of the horse soldiers / Doug Stanton.
Publisher: New York, NY : Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc., [2017]Copyright date: ©2009Edition: Scribner trade paperback editionDescription: xx, 395 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 1501178512
- 9781501178511
- Twelve strong
- Horse soldiers
- United States. Army. Special Forces -- History -- 21st century
- Afghan War, 2001-2021 -- Cavalry operations, American
- Afghan War, 2001-2021 -- Aerial operations, American
- Afghan War, 2001-2021 -- Personal narratives, American
- Special operations (Military science) -- Afghanistan -- History -- 21st century
- Soldiers -- United States -- History -- 21st century
- Soldiers -- Afghanistan -- History -- 21st century
- Urban warfare -- Afghanistan -- Mazār-i Sharīf -- History -- 21st century
- Mazār-i Sharīf (Afghanistan) -- History, Military -- 21st century
- 958.1047 .St792 2017
- DS371.412 .S73 2017
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"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."
Includes bibliographical references (pages 385-395).
Key players -- Prologue: Uprising -- Part one: Going to war -- Part two: Horsemen, ride -- Part three: Danger close -- Part four: Gates of Mazar -- Part five: Ambush -- Epilogue.
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.
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