In this riveting account, journalist Stanton recreates the miseries and triumphs of specially trained mounted U.
S.
Moreover, their careful effort to win the hearts of local townspeople proved a valuable lesson for America\'s ongoing efforts in Afghanistan..
The Soldiers on horses combined ancient strategies of cavalry warfare with twenty-first-century aerial bombardment technology to perform a seemingly impossible feat.
Deeply researched and beautifully written, Stanton\'s account of the Americans\' quest to liberate an oppressed people touches the mythic.
At risk were the military gains of the entire campaign: if the Soldiers perished or were captured, the entire effort to outmaneuver the Taliban was likely doomed.
Dangerously overpowered, they fought for their lives in the city\'s immense fortress, Qala-i-Janghi, or the House of War.
During a surrender of six hundred Taliban troops, the Horse Soldiers were ambushed by the would-be POWs.
Then the action took a wholly unexpected turn.
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.
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.
Horse Soldiers 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.
From the New York Times bestselling author of In Harm\'s Way comes a true-life Story of American Soldiers overcoming great odds to achieve a stunning military victory.
The inspiration for the major motion picture 12 Strong from Jerry Bruckheimer, starring Chris Hemsworth and Michael Shannon. soldiers, deployed in the war-ravaged Afghanistan mountains to fight alongside the Northern Alliance against the Taliban.
In this riveting account, journalist Stanton recreates the miseries and triumphs of specially trained mounted U.
S
