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greenberetTFS
05-15-2009, 16:01
I just sent for a copy of this book...:cool: It's about the the original SF teams that were sent to A-Stan in 2001 and fought with the locals on "horseback" against the Taliban and defeated them... :D It's written by Doug Barcott, I don't know anything about this author but the book interested me so I took a shot and bought it...;) I'll follow up with a review after I get it...
GB TFS :munchin
ZonieDiver
05-15-2009, 20:37
Cool! Where'd you find it? I'd be interested. The pictures of the SF team members on horseback with the NA "indig" caught my imagination. I loved that about SF. Many of us were from the west - with horse and "packing" experience - and that led to many "adventures"!
GB,
No Doug Barcott,, Maybe Doug Stanton?? :D
Horse Soldiers: the Extraordinary Story of a Band of Us Soldiers Who Rode to Victory in Afghanistan
by Doug Stanton
From the bestselling author of "In Harm's Way" comes a spectacular, harrowing, true-life soldiers' tale of struggle and triumph in the wake of the September 11 attacks. b&w photographs.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Scribner
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13: 9781416580515
ISBN: 1416580514
Languages: English
http://www.amazon.com/Horse-Soldiers-Extraordinary-Victory-Afghanistan/dp/1416580514/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1242466126&sr=8-1
greenberetTFS
05-16-2009, 04:24
GB,
No Doug Barcott,, Maybe Doug Stanton?? :D
http://www.amazon.com/Horse-Soldiers-Extraordinary-Victory-Afghanistan/dp/1416580514/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1242466126&sr=8-1
JJ,
Your right,my wife is the one who said she ordered it for me......I only had her note on it.......Thanks for clearing it up....:D
GB TFS ;)
Saw it last weekend on the new release table at Barnes and Noble. Finished it last night. I was in awe at the accomplishments of the men. Really looking forward to comments from the pros.
Will try and find this book tomorrow! Thank you for posting the info GB!
Grew up riding on my Uncles farm! Have always enjoyed chasing the wind, holding on for dear life, and ending up in the middle of no-where back-country... where the only one who knows the way home is the horse!:o
SF Men on horses....hmmm, very cool indeed!:cool:
Holly
Utah Bob
05-18-2009, 09:02
Gottahavit!:D
Nice excerpt in this month's Men's Journal (http://www.mensjournal.com/the-charge-of-the-911-brigade).
LibraryLady
05-18-2009, 11:15
The Horse Soldiers received an interesting review (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/17/books/review/Barcott-t.html?_r=1&ref=books) in the Sunday NYT Reviews. I especially like the graphic at the top.
Another excerpt (http://books.simonandschuster.com/Horse-Soldiers/Doug-Stanton/9781416580515/excerpt) from the publisher.
It's also available in audio format (abridged) and in e format.
LL
I do not remember who the director will be, but the movie rights for this book have been confirmed / acquired. Not sure on tentative movie release or production date.
SF guys need a good movie! :munchin
I do not remember who the director will be, but the movie rights for this book have been confirmed / acquired. Not sure on tentative movie release or production date.
SF guys need a good movie! :munchin
Bruckenheimer and Disney (http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=24540), looks very promising. IMDB has it tagged for 2012, which is probably just an estimate. I will be picking up a copy of this book.
greenberetTFS
05-21-2009, 10:27
I still haven't received my copy,but it's a hot seller and from my experience in book selling I can believe they are going into a 2nd printing already.........:D I also will be posting again on my military books that I'm making available for up to 6 books that I'll send "free of charge" to any QP whose is willing to pay the shipping cost only. I was an e-bay book seller for almost 10 years as "Greenberet Military Books". The market has died with this recession,so I'm just giving away my stock to those that are interested. The posting will be soon....................;) I've got about 2,000 books!:cool:
GB TFS :munchin
cold100onhw1
08-03-2009, 00:51
The book was a great look in to what SF is all about. I am having my family members read it to get an idea of what I'm getting into.
I do not remember who the director will be, but the movie rights for this book have been confirmed / acquired. Not sure on tentative movie release or production date.
SF guys need a good movie! :munchin
You didn't like Operation Dumbo Drop?
I was lucky enough to meet Mr. Stanton and his father today (he signed my book :D ).They attended the Change of Command Ceremony here at Campbell .He is a very nice man :) Just thought I would share
LongWire
09-05-2009, 00:06
Not sure that I will read it, I'm very familier with all the players in this one........this review kinda tells me things that I wont like about it.~~~~~~~~~~~
From The Washington Post
From The Washington Post's Book World/washingtonpost.com Reviewed by Chris Bray "Horse Soldiers" tells the important story of the Special Forces soldiers who first put American boots on the ground in Afghanistan in 2001. Fighting alongside the Northern Alliance, the troops, often riding on horseback, achieved several important victories against the Taliban. But their accomplishments lose significance in this account by Doug Stanton, a men's magazine writer and author of the bestseller "In Harm's Way," who reduces all the players to stock types. Hollywood will not have to work hard to produce the adaptation: A "hard-as-nails" colonel, with "hands as large as oven mitts," leads troops who do "enough sit-ups and push-ups to make an Olympian god throw up." Jaws flare, muscles ripple, eyes burn like hot coals -- all that stuff. Unlike Sean Naylor's 2005 book, "Not a Good Day to Die," an eyewitness report of early U.S. combat in Afghanistan that put the operations within their institutional context, "Horse Soldiers" is a superficial account that only appears to be that of a bystander. As Stanton explains in the author's note, the book is based on interviews, journals, "previously published media accounts, contemporaneous photography, and voluminous official U.S. military logs and histories." Stanton also visited many of the sites he writes about in the book -- but not during the time the events he describes were unfolding. Nonetheless, his book is written as if he were there. So, for instance, an Afghan warlord lights a cigarette and exhales "slowly at the sky," closing his eyes to listen for helicopters under a moon that "hung overhead, a bleached horn driven into the flank of the night." A soldier at a base in Uzbekistan, "bored out of his mind," walks outside at night and drives a golf ball off the berm at the edge of the camp: "The ball soared, a white orb sinking in the dirty pond of the night sky." A medic treats a wound from a land mine, "the jellied flesh dark as a ruby." White orbs, dirty ponds of the night, jellied flesh rubies -- I kept picturing Snoopy at his typewriter: "It was a dark and stormy night." Prose style aside, readers should approach these kinds of details with skepticism. Those doubts should gather strength as Stanton describes the details of military operations. Special Forces soldiers walk around with "fingers curled around triggers" without having identified anything to shoot. Six troops ride for hours through Taliban country, trailed only by a small and indifferent group of Northern Alliance soldiers for security; then, as they prepare to enter a village, the team commander tells them for the first time to "lock and load." And so on. In short, Stanton has written a book that may interest a general audience but has little to offer policymaker and military professionals.
Copyright 2009, The Washington Post. All Rights Reserved.
ZonieDiver
11-13-2009, 12:09
Finished "Horse Soldiers" today, and have mixed emotions. Part of it was pretty good, but it was a very disjointed read. The points mentioned in the review posted by LongWire are well-taken.
The part that really frosted me, however, was the overly sympathetic view the author seemed to have in regard to John Walker Lindh.
IMHO, it's worth reading but not by much.
Just finished reading the book and I was very impressed.
I was suggested the book by Col Mark E. Mitchell who was actually in the book. Really funny when i realized who it was...lol
The man is a hero
2018commo
12-10-2012, 03:19
I stepped off the PATH into the Big City Saturday and found a Horse Soldier Memorial.
I stepped off the PATH into the Big City Saturday and found a Horse Soldier Memorial.
Sir,
Beautiful Memorial, thank you for posting the picture! May I inquire what city it is located in?
Thank you,
Holly
2018commo
12-11-2012, 04:30
New York City, at Ground Zero.
http://video.foxnews.com/v/1912138721001/horse-soldier-memorial-unveiled-at-ground-zero/
New York City, at Ground Zero.
http://video.foxnews.com/v/1912138721001/horse-soldier-memorial-unveiled-at-ground-zero/
Thank you Sir! Outstanding!!!;)
Holly