Name: Horse Soldiers: The Extraordinary Story of a Band of Special Forces who Rode to Victory in Afghanistan
Price: 8.91 GBP
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Author: Doug Stanton
ISBN: 9781847398239

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Type

Physical Book

Publisher

Simon & Schuster Ltd

Author

Doug Stanton

Synopsis "Horse Soldiers: The Extraordinary Story of a Band of Special Forces who Rode to Victory in Afghanistan"

The Horse Soldiers is the true, dramatic account of a small band of Special Forces soldiers who entered Afghanistan immediately following September 11, 2001 and, riding to war on horses, defeated the Taliban. Heavily outnumbered, they nonetheless succeed in capturing the strategic Afghan city of Mazar-e Sharif, where they are welcomed as liberators as they ride on horseback into the city, the streets thronged with Afghans overjoyed that the Taliban have been kicked out. The soldiers rest easy, as they feel they have accomplished their mission. Then the action takes a wholly unexpected turn. During a surrender of Taliban troops, the Horse Soldiers are ambushed by the would-be P.O.W.s and, still dangerously outnumbered, they must fight for their lives in the city's ancient fortress known as Qala-I Janghi, or the House of War...