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Author:

Stanton, Doug.

Title:

12 Strong [Paperback] : The Declassified True Story Of The Horse Soldiers / by Doug Stanton.

Format:

[Paperback] :

Edition:

Scribner trade paperback edition.

Publisher:

Scribner

Copyright Date:

2017

Description:

395 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Subject:

United States--Special Forces--Special Forces--History--21st century.
Soldiers--Afghanistan--History--21st century.
Afghan War, 2001---Cavalry operations, American.
Afghan War, 2001---Aerial operations, American.
Special operations (Military science)--Afghanistan--History--21st century.

Summary:

n the weeks following the attacks of September 11, a small band of Special Forces soldiers secretly entered Afghanistan. Riding on horseback, they pursued the Taliban over the stark and mountainous Afghanistan terrain. After a series of intense battles, they captured the strategically essential city of Mazar-i-Sharif. The bone-weary American soldiers were welcomed as liberators as they rode into the city, and the streets thronged with Afghans overjoyed that the Taliban regime had been overthrown. 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 city’s immense fortress, Qala-i-Jangi, 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.

ISBN:

1501178512
9781501178511

LCCN:

2017051328

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