Title 12 strong : the declassified true story of the horse soldiers / Doug Stanton.

Publication Info.	New York, NY : Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc., [2017]
	©2009

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Edition	Scribner trade paperback edition.
Description	xx, 395 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm
Note	"The amazing book that inspired the movie"--Cover.
	"Previously published as Horse soldiers: the extraordinary story of a band of U.S. soldiers who rode to victory in Afghanistan"--Title page verso.
	Includes excerpt from Doug Stanton's "The odyssey of Echo Company: the 1968 TET offensive and the epic battle to survive the Vietnam War."
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 385-395).
Contents	Key players -- Prologue: Uprising -- Part one: Going to war -- Part two: Horsemen, ride -- Part three: Danger close -- Part four: Gates of Mazar -- Part five: Ambush -- Epilogue.
Summary	Documents the post-September 11 mission during which a small band of Special Forces soldiers captured the strategic Afghan city of Mazar-e Sharif as part of an effort to defeat the Taliban, in a dramatic account that includes testimonies by Afghanistan citizens whose lives were changed by the war.
Subject	United States. Army. Special Forces -- History -- 21st century.
	United States. Army. Special Forces. (OCoLC)fst00535878
	Afghan War (2001-) (OCoLC)fst01695175
	Afghan War, 2001-2021 -- Cavalry operations, American.
	Afghan War, 2001-2021 -- Aerial operations, American.
	Afghan War, 2001-2021 -- Personal narratives, American.
	Special operations (Military science) -- Afghanistan -- History -- 21st century.
	Soldiers -- United States -- History -- 21st century.
	Soldiers -- Afghanistan -- History -- 21st century.
	Urban warfare -- Afghanistan -- Mazār-i Sharīf -- History -- 21st century.
	Mazār-i Sharīf (Afghanistan) -- History, Military -- 21st century.
	HISTORY -- Middle East.
	HISTORY -- Military.
	HISTORY -- Modern.
	Military operations, Aerial -- American. (OCoLC)fst01710199
	Soldiers. (OCoLC)fst01125233
	Special operations (Military science) (OCoLC)fst01128975
	Urban warfare. (OCoLC)fst01162690
	Afghanistan. (OCoLC)fst01205406
	Afghanistan -- Mazār-i Sharīf. (OCoLC)fst01692352
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Chronological Term	2000-2099
Genre/Form	Personal narratives.
	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
	Military history. (OCoLC)fst01411630
	Personal narratives. (OCoLC)fst01423843
	Personal narratives -- American. (OCoLC)fst01424071
Added Title	Horse Soldiers
	Twelve strong
ISBN	1501178512 (paperback)
	9781501178511 (paperback)
	9781416588238 (ebook)

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