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12 Strong

The Declassified True Story of the Horse Soldiers

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12 Strong

Von: Doug Stanton
Gesprochen von: Jack Garrett
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The inspiration for the major motion picture 12 Strong from Jerry Bruckheimer, starring Chris Hemsworth and Michael Shannon.

From the New York Times bestselling author of In Harm’s Way comes a true-life story of US Army Special Forces soldiers overcoming great odds to achieve a stunning military victory in the Afghanistan War.

Horse Soldiers is the dramatic account of a small band of Special Forces soldiers who secretly entered Afghanistan following September 11 and rode to war on horses against the Taliban. Outnumbered forty-to-one, they pursued the enemy army across the mountainous Afghanistan terrain and, after a series of intense battles, captured the city of Mazar-i-Sharif, which was strategically essential to defeat their opponent throughout the country.

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-Janghi, 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.

Deeply researched and beautifully written, Stanton’s account of the Americans’ quest to liberate an oppressed people touches the mythic. The soldiers on horses combined ancient strategies of cavalry warfare with twenty-first-century aerial bombardment technology to perform a seemingly impossible feat. Moreover, their careful effort to win the hearts of local townspeople proved a valuable lesson for America’s ongoing efforts in Afghanistan. Militär Naher Osten
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Der Autor hat einen guten Schreibstil, der Erzähler war brilliant, aber die wahre Geschichte ist doch sehr amerikanisch glorifiziert.
Sicherlich ist vieles so geschehen und die Special Forces haben einiges geleistet, aber die Arbeit einiger Journalisten gerade bei der letzten Episode im Fort von Qalar i jangi, zeigt dass die Arbeit von CIA und Special Forces zu sehr über die Rolle der Northern Alliance gehoben wurde.
Deswegen kann ich das Buch nur empfehlen, wenn man sichnoch mehr Informationen aus anderen Quellen zu dieser Episode des Afghanistankrieges besorgt.

Gut erzählt, aber die Realität doch geschönt

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