12 Strong The Declassified True Story of the Horse Soldiers |
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| Author:
| Stanton, Doug |
| ISBN: | 978-1-4711-7335-6 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2018 |
| Publisher: | Simon & Schuster, Limited
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| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | USD $6.58 |
Book Description:
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OFFICIAL TIE-IN TO THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE 12 STRONG, STARRING CHRIS HEMSWORTH 'Spellbinding true-life story . . . Reminiscent of Mark Bowden's Black Hawk Down' USA Today 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 horseback against the Taliban. Outnumbered forty to one, they pursued the enemy across the mountainous terrain and...
More Description OFFICIAL TIE-IN TO THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE 12 STRONG, STARRING CHRIS HEMSWORTH
'Spellbinding true-life story . . . Reminiscent of Mark Bowden's Black Hawk Down' USA Today
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 horseback against the Taliban. Outnumbered forty to one, they pursued the enemy across the mountainous terrain and captured the city of Mazar-i-Sharif.
The bone-weary American soldiers were welcomed as liberators, 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. Dangerously overpowered, they fought for their lives in the city's immense fortress, Qala-i-Janghi, or the House of War.
At risk were the military gains of the entire campaign: if the soldiers were captured, their courageous effort to outmanoeuvre the Taliban was likely doomed . . .