Horse soldiers the extraordinary story of a band of U.S. soldiers who rode to victory in Afghanistan
(2009)
By:
Stanton, Doug
Nonfiction
Large Type
Call Numbers:
LARGE TYPE/958.1047/STANTON,D
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
Waterville, Me. : Thorndike Press, 2009
EDITION
Large print edition
DESCRIPTION
771 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781410417206 (hardcover alk. paper), 1410417204 (hardcover alk. paper)
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Following 9/11, a small band of Special Forces soldiers secretly entered Afghanistan and rode to war on horseback against the Taliban. Outnumbered forty to one, they pursued the enemy across the mountainous terrain and captured the strategic city of Mazari-Sharif. The bone-weary Americans were welcomed as liberators, and overjoyed Afghans thronged the streets. Then the action took an unexpected turn: the Horse Soldiers were ambushed