12 Strong: The Declassified True Story of the Horse Soldiers

The New York Times bestselling “spellbinding true-life story” (USA TODAY) of a United States Special Forces team deployed to the war-ravaged Afghanistan mountains in the weeks immediately following 9/11, overcoming great odds to become heroes of our era—now a major motion picture from Jerry Bruckheimer and Lionsgate.

In the weeks following the attacks of September 11, a small band of Special Forces soldiers secretly entered Afghanistan.

Riding on horseback, they pursued the Taliban over the stark and mountainous Afghanistan terrain.

After a series of intense battles, they captured the strategically essential city of Mazar-i-Sharif.

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.