Horse Soldiers: The Extraordinary Story of a Band of Us Soldiers Who Rode to Vic

<b>The inspiration for the major motion picture <i>12 Strong </i>from Jerry Bruckheimer, starring Chris Hemsworth and Michael Shannon.</b> <p/> <b>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.</b> <p/><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. <p/>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. <p/>Then the action took a wholly unexpected turn. During a surrender of six hundred Taliban troops, the Horse Soldiers were ambushed by the would-be POWs. Dangerously overpowered, they fought for their lives in the city's immense fortress, Qala-i-Janghi, or the House of War. 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. <p/>Deeply researched and beautifully written, Stanton's account of the Americans' quest to libe