12 Strong is a movie directed by Nicolai Fuglsig in 2018 and based on the book Horse Soldiers: The Extraordinary Story of a Band of US Soldiers Who Rode to Victory in Afghanistan by Doug Stanton, first published in 2009. The movie features Chris Hemsworth, Michael Shannon, Navid Negahban, Michael Peña, Trevante Rhodes, Elsa Pataky, and others.
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“The book is better than the movie”
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Storyline
Mitch Nelson, a U.S. Army captain with Green Berets Operational Detachment Alpha (ODA) 595, is moving into a new home with his wife and daughter on September 11, 2001, after receiving an assignment to staff duty under Lieutenant Colonel Bowers. Bowers initially refuses, but veteran soldier CW5 Hal Spencer, previously scheduled to retire, persuades Bowers to give Nelson command of 595 again, as well as volunteering himself for the deployment.
Movie vs Book
Year
2018
Minutes
130
Movie Rate
6.60
Source: IMDb
Year
2009
Pages
393
Book Rate
8.26
S: Goodreads
Book
Horse Soldiers
Subtitle: The Extraordinary Story of a Band of US Soldiers Who Rode to Victory in Afghanistan
Author: Doug Stanton
Country: USA
First published in: 2009
Length: 393 pages
Genre: Biography
User polls & recommendations
“I’m always frustrated when somebody makes a movie out of a book and they leave the book behind, or the heart of it.”
SEAN PENN (Actor, Filmmaker)
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