Horse Soldiers: The Extraordinary Story of a Band of U.S. Soldiers Who Rode to Victory in Afghanistan (Thorndike Paperback Bestsellers)
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| Rating | : | 4.18 (838 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1594133697 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 770 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-02-23 |
| Language | : | English |
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The boneweary American soldiers were welcomed as liberators, and overjoyed Afghans thronged the streets. But the action took a wholly unexpected turn when a surrender of six hundred Taliban troops, the Horse Soldiers were ambushed. Doug Stanton, who received unprecedented cooperation from the U.S. A New York Times Bestselling Author -- Horse Soldiers is the dramatic account of a small band of Special Forces soldiers who secretly entered Afghanistan following 9/11. Army's Special Forces soldiers and Special Operations helicopter pilots, a now tells the full story for the first time.
Doug Stanton is the author of the New York Times bestseller In Harm’s Way: The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis and the Extraordinary Story of Its Survivors. He and his wife, the investigative reporter Anne Stanton, have three children. . A former contributing editor at Esquire, Sports Afield, and Outside, Stanton is now a contributing editor a
Horse Soldiers N. Kenyon If you want to know what our Special Forces members face during their assignments overseas; this is the book to read. It leaves me wondering why our military personnel were ever sent to this ungodly area in Afghanistan. Their experiences there were mind boggling. Personally, I'll never understand why our military services were sent there in the first place. The Taliban and now Isis seem to be of the same ilk.. Charles G. Irvine said Excitement personified. Mr Stanton has created a fascinating narrative of the exploits of the US Special Forces in what was prewar Afghanistan.The book title refers to the fact that our US SF needed to mount horses in order to stay with the Northern Alliance tribesmen they were helping to drive out the Taliban. Many of them had never before been on a horse. Really tough duty, especially on makeshift wooden saddles. The SF people are introduced by name, and you are given their bios, leading to the reader becoming intimate with all of them. A most interesting approa. "The Human Side of the Defeat of the Taliban" according to Charles E. Rittenburg. This is the first audio book I've listened to in years, but I found that I enjoyed it tremendously. I was able to hear the whole thing on one long car trip, and it kept me rivetted the whole time. I hated to get off the road for food and gas because it interrupted the story! This is an inside look at the secret, special warfare operators who led the Afghan Northern Alliance, which had just lost its inspirational commanding general and was on the verge of defeat on 9-11, to complete liberation of Afghanistan in literally a few months. We are
In this absolutely riveting account, full of horror and raw courage, journalist Stanton (In Harm's Way) recreates the miseries and triumphs of specially trained mounted U.S. contingent, almost to a man, had never ridden horses-especially not these "shaggy and thin-legged, and short descendents of the beasts Genghis Khan had ridden out of Uzbekistan"-but that was not the only obstacle: rattling helicopters, outdated maps, questionable air support and insufficient food also played their parts. From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. soldiers, deployed in the war-ravaged Afghanistan mountains to fight alongside the Northern Alliance-thousands of rag-tag Afghans who fought themselves to exhaustion or death-against the Taliban. The