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Total pages original book: 416
Includes a PDF summary of 37 pages
Duration of the summary (audio): 27M57S (7.4 MB)
Description or summary of the audiobook: The Horse Soldiers is the true, dramatic account of a small band of Special Forces soldiers who entered Afghanistan immediately following September 11, 2001 and, riding to war on horses, defeated the Taliban. Heavily outnumbered, they nonetheless succeed in capturing the strategic Afghan city of Mazar-e Sharif, where they are welcomed as liberators as they ride on horseback into the city, the streets thronged with Afghans overjoyed that the Taliban have been kicked out. The soldiers rest easy, as they feel they have accomplished their mission. Then the action takes a wholly unexpected turn. During a surrender of Taliban troops, the Horse Soldiers are ambushed by the would-be P.O.W.s and, still dangerously outnumbered, they must fight for their lives in the city's ancient fortress known as Qala-I Janghi, or the House of War...
Other categories, genre or collection: Afghan War, Modern History To 20th Century: C 1700 To C 1900, Military History, 21st Century History: From C 2000 -, Special & Elite Forces, Middle Eastern History, Asian History