Horse Soldiers: The Extraordinary Story of a Band of US Soldiers Who Rode to Victory in Afghanistan
<b>The inspiration for the major motion picture <i>12 Strong </i>from Jerry Bruckheimer, starring Chris Hemsworth and Michael Shannon.</b><br /><br />From the <i>New York Times </i>bestselling author of <i>In Harm’s Way</i> comes a true-life story of American soldiers overcoming great odds to achieve a stunning military victory.<br /><br /><i>Horse Soldiers</i> is the dramatic account of a small band of Special Forces soldiers who secretly entered Afghanistan following 9/11 and rode to war on horses against the Taliban. Outnumbered forty to one, they pursued the enemy army across the mountainous Afghanistan terrain and, after a series of intense battles, captured the city of Mazar-i-Sharif, which was strategically essential to defeat their opponent throughout the country.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />Then the acti
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