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New York Times bestseller! From the author of In Harm’s Way comes another intrepid true-life tale of men at war overcoming great odds to survive. Horse Soldiers is the dramatic account of a small band of Special Forces soldiers who entered Afghanistan immediately following September 11 and, riding to war on horses, defeated the Taliban. Outnumbered 40 to 1, they capture the strategic city of Mazar-e Sharif and rest easy—until the action takes a wholly unexpected turn. During a surrender of Taliban troops, the Horse Soldiers are ambushed and, still dangerously outnumbered, they must fight for their lives in the city’s ancient fortress. As the Horse Soldiers struggle to retrieve the body of a slain CIA officer and rescue their comrades-in-arms, they face what military planners will call the most intense urban combat of the time. One of the book’s protagonists received the Distinguished Service Cross for his efforts, the first soldier awarded this in 30 years. In the aftermath of the battle, John Walker Lindh, the “American Taliban,” emerges from the rubble unscathed. The unlikely discovery of Lindh and the death of the CIA officer, the first American to be killed in post-9/11 conflict, shocks the world and garners massive global media attention. Doug Stanton writes for Esquire, Men’s Journal, and Outside.