Horse Soldiers: The Extraordinary Story of a Band of U.S. Soldiers Who Rode to Victory in Afghanistan
New York: Scribner, 2010. First Scribiner paperback edition [stated]. Third printing [stated]. Trade paperback. xx, [2], 407, [3] pages. Maps. Illustrations. Sources. Bibliography. Cover has some wear and soiling. Some page wear. Doug Stanton is an American journalist, screenwriter, and author of the New York Times bestsellers In Harm’s Way and Horse Soldiers, which is the basis for the film 12 Strong, starring Chris Hemsworth and Michael Shannon. In Harm’s Way spent more than six months on the New York Times bestseller list and became required on the U.S. Navy's reading list for officers. Stanton’s Horse Soldiers was a bestseller on lists in USA Today, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Entertainment Weekly Publisher’s Weekly, and IndieBound. Horse Soldiers was named a “Notable Book” by the New York Times. The Great Lakes Independent Booksellers Association made Horse Soldiers a “Great Lakes, Great Reads” book, and it was chosen as a “Best Book” by Publishers Weekly, Christian Science Monitor, Barnes & Noble, and Amazon. More