Search
Log in
  • Home

  • Categories

  • Audiobooks

  • E-books

  • Magazines

  • For kids

  • Top lists

  • Help

  • Download app

  • Use campaign code

  • Redeem gift card

  • Try free now
  • Log in
  • Language

    🇸🇪 Sverige

    • SE
    • EN

    🇧🇪 Belgique

    • FR
    • EN

    🇩🇰 Danmark

    • DK
    • EN

    🇩🇪 Deutschland

    • DE
    • EN

    🇪🇸 España

    • ES
    • EN

    🇫🇷 France

    • FR
    • EN

    🇳🇱 Nederland

    • NL
    • EN

    🇳🇴 Norge

    • NO
    • EN

    🇦🇹 Österreich

    • AT
    • EN

    🇨🇭 Schweiz

    • DE
    • EN

    🇫🇮 Suomi

    • FI
    • EN
  1. Books
  2. History
  3. Military history

Read and listen for free for 14 days!

Cancel anytime

Try free now
0.0(0)

Horse Soldiers : The Extraordinary Story of a Band of US Soldiers Who Rode to Victory in Afghanistan

Now a major motion picture from Jerry Bruckheimer starring Chris Hemsworth and Michael Shannon!

“A thrilling action ride of a book” (The New York Times Book Review)—the New York Times bestselling, true-life account of a US Special Forces team deployed to dangerous, war-ridden Afghanistan in the weeks following 9/11.

In the weeks following the attacks of September 11, a small band of Special Forces soldiers secretly entered Afghanistan. Riding on horseback, they pursued the Taliban over the stark and mountainous Afghanistan terrain. After a series of intense battles, they captured the strategically essential city of Mazar-i-Sharif.

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. 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-Jangi, 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.

Previously published as Horse Soldiers, 12 Strong “is not just a battle story—it’s also about the home front. An important book” (the TODAY show). A thrilling, inspiring tale of a group of men on horses who did the impossible and an incredible account of real life bravery and heroism in the face of insurmountable odds.


Author:

  • Doug Stanton

Format:

  • E-book

Duration:

  • 436 pages

Language:

English

Categories:

  • History
  • Military history

More by Doug Stanton

Skip the list
  1. The Odyssey of Echo Company: The 1968 Tet Offensive and the Epic Battle to Survive the Vietnam War

    Doug Stanton

    audiobookbook
  2. 12 Strong : The Declassified True Story of the Horse Soldiers

    Doug Stanton

    audiobook
  3. 12 Strong : The Declassified True Story of the Horse Soldiers

    Doug Stanton

    audiobook

Others have also read

Skip the list
  1. Orientation for the Pacific Theater

    US War Department

    book
  2. Storm on the Horizon: Khafji--The Battle that Changed the Course of the Gulf War

    David J. Morris

    book
  3. Vietnam : The Necessary War

    Michael Lind

    book
  4. The World within War

    Gerald Linderman

    book
  5. Blitzkrieg in their own Words

    book
  6. Fighting For Life

    Albert E. Cowdrey

    book
  7. Operation Cobra and the Great Offensive : Sixty Days That Changed the Course of World War II

    Bill Yenne

    book
  8. Deathride: Hitler vs. Stalin - The Eastern Front, 1941-1945

    John Mosier

    book
  9. Making the Corps

    Thomas E. Ricks

    book
  10. Paradise General : Riding the Surge at a Combat Hospital in Iraq

    Dave Hnida

    book
  11. The Brink : President Reagan and the Nuclear War Scare of 1983

    Marc Ambinder

    book
  12. Flying Through Midnight: A Pilot's Dramatic Story of His Secret Missions Over Laos During the Vietnam War

    John T. Halliday

    book

  • 4 books

    Doug Stanton

    Doug Stanton is the author of the New York Times bestsellers In Harm’s Way: The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis and the Extraordinary Story of Its Survivors and Horse Soldiers: The Extraordinary Story of a Band of US Soldiers Who Rode to Victory in Afghanistan, which is the basis for a Jerry Bruckheimer–produced movie by the same name, starring Chris Hemsworth and Michael Shannon, to be released by Warner Bros. in 2018. He attended Hampshire College and the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The New York Times Book Review, Time, The Washington Post, Men’s Journal, The Daily Beast, Newsweek, Esquire, and Outside, where he has been a contributing editor. Stanton is a founder of the National Writers Series, a year-round book festival, and lives in his hometown of Traverse City, Michigan, with his wife, Anne Stanton, and their three children, John, Katherine, and Will.

    Read more

Help and contact


About us

  • Our story
  • Career
  • Press
  • Accessibility
  • Partner with us
  • Investor relations
  • Instagram
  • Facebook

Explore

  • Categories
  • Audiobooks
  • E-books
  • Magazines
  • For kids
  • Top lists

Popular categories

  • Crime
  • Biographies and reportage
  • Fiction
  • Feel-good and romance
  • Personal development
  • Children's books
  • True stories
  • Sleep and relaxation

Nextory

Copyright © 2025 Nextory AB

Privacy Policy · Terms ·
Excellent4.3 out of 5