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Normal View MARC View ISBD View12 strong : the declassified true story of the horse soldiers / Twelve strong Doug Stanton - Scribner trade paperback edition. - xx, 395 pages, [8] pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm
"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).
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.
1501178512 9781501178511
2009293971
Afghan War, 2001-
Afghan War, 2001-
Afghan War, 2001-
Special operations (Military science)
Soldiers
Soldiers
Urban warfare
958.1047