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020 _a9781501178511
_cRM 24.90
_qpaperback
040 _aPPAK
_beng
_cPPAK
_erda
082 0 4 _223
_a958.1047
090 _a958.1047
_bSTA
_dG
100 1 _aStanton, Doug,
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _a12 STRONG :
_bTHE DECLASSIFIED TRUE STORY OF THE HORSE SOLDIERS /
_cDOUG STANTON
246 3 3 _aTwelve strong
250 _aScribner trade paperback edition.
264 1 _aNew York, NY :
_bScribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc. ;
_c2017.
264 4 _c©2009
300 _axx, 395 pages, [8] pages of plates :
_billustrations, photographs, maps ;
_c21 cm.
336 _2rdacontent
_atext
337 _2rdamedia
_aunmediated
338 _2rdacarrier
_avolume
500 _aThe amazing book that inspired the movie" -- cover.
500 _a"Previously published as Horse soldiers: the extraordinary story of a band of U.S. soldiers who rode to victory in Afghanistan"--Title page verso.
500 _aIncludes excerpt from Doug Stanton's "The odyssey of Echo Company: the 1968 TET offensive and the epic battle to survive the Vietnam War".
520 _aDocuments 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.
610 _a United States. Army. Special Forces
_xHistory
_y21st century.
650 0 _a Afghan War, 2001-
_x-Cavalry operations, American.
650 0 _aAfghan War, 2001-
_vAerial operations, American.
650 0 _aAfghan War, 2001-
_vPersonal narratives, American.
650 0 _aSpecial operations (Military science)
_xHistory
_y21st century.
_zAfghanistan
650 0 _a Soldiers
_xHistory
_y21st century.
_zUnited States
650 0 _aSoldiers
_xHistory
_y21st century.
_zAfghanistan
650 0 _aUrban warfare
_xHistory
_y21st century.
_zAfghanistan
_zMazār-i Sharīf
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