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Doug Stanton
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Doug Stanton

Doug Stanton is the author of the New York Times bestseller In Harm’s Way: The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis and the Extraordinary Story of Its Survivors. A former contributing editor at Esquire, Sports Afield, and Outside, Stanton is now a contributing editor at Men’s Journal and has written extensively on travel, sport, entertainment, and history, during which time he nearly drowned in Cape Horn waters, survived a mugging by jungle revolutionaries, played basketball with George Clooney, and took an acting lesson from Harrison Ford.Stanton lives in his hometown of Traverse City, Michigan, where he is a member of the advisory board of the Interlochen Center for... Read full bio

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Horse Soldiers is now available in Hardcover
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New York Times, January 26, 2010
...to support particular books that might not be getting as much attention elsewhere. She cited “Horse Soldiers,” by Doug Stanton, a book about a group of Special Forces officers who fought the Taliban on horseback, as an example of a book Borders had...
Fulton Daily News, December 17, 2009
...Soldiers: the Extraordinary Story of a Band of U.S. Soldiers who Rode to Victory in Afghanistan by Doug Stanton Other happenings at the Library: The Childrens Room at the Oswego Public Library is excited to announce that Santa will be visiting the...
Christian Science Monitor, December 4, 2009
...Soldiers: The Extraordinary Story of a Band of U.S. Soldiers Who Rode to Victory in Afghanistan By Doug Stanton Scribner 416 pp., $28 This carefully detailed account of the US Army Special Forces who slipped into Afghanistan on horseback fills in the...
Record-Eagle, November 11, 2009
...TRAVERSE CITY -- Doug Stanton didn't understand the e-mail of congratulations he received this week from an editor at Scribner, the publisher of his latest book. Congratulations? For what? Turns out his book...
Gaylord Herald Times, November 10, 2009
...department and some powerful and wealthy adversaries who would like to control him. New York Times best-selling author Doug Stanton calls Standers storytelling enthralling and says he evokes these north woods and Lake Michigan with a poets eye. Stander...
New York Times, November 7, 2009
...of the best about the Iraq war. “Finkel has made art out of a defining moment in history,” Doug Stanton wrote in The New York Times Sunday Book Review. “You will be able to take this book down from the shelf years from now and say: ‘This is what...
Columbia Journalism Review, October 14, 2009
...David Finkel’s book The Good Soldiers, about the experiences of a US Army battalion during the surge in Iraq, is getting standout reviews. The Good Soldiers “captures the surreal horror of war,” Michiko Kakutani wrote in The New York Times last...
Record-Eagle, October 9, 2009
...10 a.m. Thursday. The interview is part of the Traverse City National Writers Series created by author Doug Stanton. Among those who plan to attend the Opera House event are members of the Traverse City Orthodox Mission Church on Hastings Street. The...
Chicago Reader, September 11, 2009
...for The Story of Edgar Sawtelle Nonfiction Michael Perry for Coop: A Year of Poultry, Pigs, and Parenting Doug Stanton for Horse Soldiers: The Extraordinary Story of a Band of U.S. Soldiers Who Rode to Victory in Afghanistan Greg Kot for Ripped: How the...
Leelanau Enterprise, August 7, 2009
...in 1985. 1. ?I think it?s about the same,? she said. Books by local authors such as Doug Stanton?s Horse Soldiers are doing well and Siepker said her location in Glen Arbor is a aided by summer visitors looking for a book to read while on vacation...
San Francisco Chronicle, August 2, 2009
...tried to stabilize the country on the cheap. It then shifted resources to Iraq. In 'Horse Soldiers,' journalist Doug Stanton paints a colorful, if oversize, portrait of the resourceful warriors who implemented these policies under dicey conditions in...
Deseret Morning News, July 20, 2009
...Soldiers: The Extraordinary Story of a Band of U.S. Soldiers Who Rode to Victory in Afghanistan' by Doug Stanton about a secret mission undertaken against the Taliban by Special Forces soldiers. 'My Remarkable Journey' by Larry King, the 'definitive...
Christian Science Monitor, July 18, 2009
...s NONFICTION titles. The books jump from art theft to artillery, from Kashmir to Montana. Horse Soldiers by Doug Stanton (Scribner, 416 pp., $28) Shortly after 9/11, a small band of US Special Forces entered Afghanistan on horseback and, outnumbered 40...
Christianity.com, July 4, 2009
...on this list and thought I?d check in. Number five on the list was Horse Soldiers by Doug Stanton. Mohler says, ?Horse Soldiers is a story that demands to be told and Stanton tells it well. No one reading this account will believe that the...
Indy.com, June 28, 2009
...Soldiers: The Extraordinary Story of a Band of US Soldiers Who Rode to Victory in Afghanistan,/b by Doug Stanton, about a secret mission undertaken against the Taliban by Special Forces soldiers. braquo; My Remarkable Journey,/b by Larry King, the...
Monsters and Critics, June 10, 2009
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Florida Today, June 7, 2009
...had been killed in combat and that 'American Taliban' John Walker Lindh had been captured. In 'Horse Soldiers,' Doug Stanton chronicles the spellbinding true-life story of the elite U.S. Army Special Forces and CIA operatives who secretly slipped into...
Gaylord Herald Times, May 22, 2009
...GAYLORD -- Doug Stanton, author of the New York Times bestseller In Harms Way: The Sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis and the Extraordinary Story of Its Survivors will have signed copies...
Honolulu Advertiser, May 18, 2009
...Soldiers: The Extraordinary Story of a Band of U.S. Soldiers Who Rode to Victory in Afghanistan' by Doug Stanton (in stores), about a secret mission undertaken against the Taliban by Special Forces soldiers. 'My Remarkable Journey' by Larry King (May...
News-Press.com, May 17, 2009
...Soldiers: The Extraordinary Story of a Band of U.S. Soldiers Who Rode to Victory in Afghanistan' by Doug Stanton (in stores), about a secret mission undertaken against the Taliban by Special Forces soldiers. 'My Remarkable Journey' by Larry King (May...
Burlington Press, May 17, 2009
...Soldiers: The Extraordinary Story of a Band of U.S. Soldiers Who Rode to Victory in Afghanistan' by Doug Stanton (in stores), about a secret mission undertaken against the Taliban by Special Forces soldiers. 'My Remarkable Journey' by Larry King...
Visalia Times-Delta, May 16, 2009
...Soldiers: The Extraordinary Story of a Band of U.S. Soldiers Who Rode to Victory in Afghanistan' by Doug Stanton (in stores), about a secret mission undertaken against the Taliban by Special Forces soldiers.'My Remarkable Journey' by Larry King (May 19),...
Record-Eagle, May 16, 2009
...TRAVERSE CITY -- Doug Stanton doesn't know what day it is. You'll have to forgive him. For the last two weeks, his days started early and ended late, and he often wakes...
Army Times, May 11, 2009
...time warp, said Col. Mark Mitchell, a key figure in Horse Soldiers, a new book by Michigan author Doug Stanton that tells their story. Youre living in caves, watching these [Afghan] guys with rifles so old they could have been out of museums. Youre...
CFRB AM 1010, May 10, 2009
...time warp,' said Col. Mark Mitchell, a key figure in 'Horse Soldiers,' a new book by Michigan author Doug Stanton that tells their story. 'You're living in caves, watching these (Afghan) guys with rifles so old they could have been out of museums. You're...
Navy Times, May 7, 2009
...Soldiers: The Extraordinary Story of a Band of U.S. Soldiers Who Rode to Victory in Afghanistan? by Doug Stanton (in stores), about a secret mission undertaken against the Taliban by Special Forces soldiers. ? ?My Remarkable Journey? by Larry...
Record-Eagle, May 3, 2009
...TC author Doug Stanton gets to the heart of mission Special to the Record-Eagle n 'Horse Soldiers: The Extraordinary Story of a Band of US Soldiers Who Rode to Victory in Afghanistan,' by...
Record-Eagle, May 3, 2009
...Local writer's new book hits shelves this week Editor's note: Traverse City resident and best-selling author Doug Stanton's new book, 'Horse Soldiers,' goes on sale this week and Stanton embarks on a national book tour to support the work that took him...
Karen & Gerard Zemek, January 4, 2010
...her relationship with her dog and other owners and their relationship with their dogs. 2. Horse Soldiers by Doug Stanton about special forces in Afghanistan--nonfiction. 3. Boy In the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne about the Holocaust but fiction. 4. Last...
This Writing Life, December 28, 2009
...Soldiers: The Extraordinary Story Of A Band Of U.S. Soldiers Who Rode To Victory In Afghanistan by Doug Stanton An enthralling, in-depth look at the Special Forces and CIA ops that were the first group into Afghanistan working with the Northern...
zenpundit.com, December 21, 2009
...W. Singer The Mind of War: John Boyd and American Security by Grant T. Hammond Horse Soldiers by Doug Stanton The Bloody White Baron  by James Palmer The Threat Closer to Home: Hugo Chavez and the War Against America by Douglas E. Schoen This Is...
Bookin' with Bingo, November 3, 2009
...Albom, Michael Cunningham, Tana French, Barbara Delinsky, Jonathan Franzen, Sue Grafton, and Jacqueline Winspear; and nonfiction titles by Doug Stanton, Alan Alda, Barbara Ehrenreich, Dr. Arthur Agatston, Al Gore, Linda Greenlaw, Tony Horwitz, Richard A....
1morechapter.com, November 2, 2009
...Horse Soldiers: The Extraordinary Story of a Band of U.S. Soldiers Who Rode to Victory in Afghanistan by Doug Stanton Jazz Loft Project: Photographs and Tapes of W. Eugene Smith from 821 Sixth Avenue, 1957–1965 by Sam Stephenson Pops: A Life of...
The Brainpan, October 10, 2009
...      .  David Morrell       .  Merl Reagle       .  Adam Rex       .  Curtis Sittenfeld       .  Doug Stanton       .  Nancy Turner       .  Luis Alberto Urrea        To see if your favorite author...
The Moderate Voice, September 3, 2009
...a band of U.S. soldiers who rode to victory in Afghanistan” right after 9/11: “ Horse Soldiers ,” by Doug Stanton...
Taegan Goddard's Political Wire, June 11, 2009
...2009 Twitter Raffle It's time for another Twitter raffle! I have five copies of Horse Soldiers by Doug Stanton to offer to Political Wire readers. The book is a dramatic account of a small band of Special Forces soldiers who secretly entered Afghanistan...
BrothersJudd Blog, June 7, 2009
...CONTEST PART 2: Thanks to our friends at FSB Associates , we've got a couple copies of Doug Stanton's Horse Soldiers to give away, just in time for Father's Day. We reviewed Mr. Stanton's In Harm's Way Someone finally got the president right (Rich...
Between Two Worlds, June 6, 2009
...Hunting Eichmann Alan Huffman, Sultana: Surviving the Civil War, Prison, and the Worst Maritime Disaster in American History Doug Stanton, Horse Soldiers: The Extraordinary Story of a Band of U.S. Soldiers Who Rode to Victory in Afghanistan Norman Stone,...
RightyBlogs.com » National, June 5, 2009
...YOU OWE YOUR DAD: Thanks to our friends at FSB Associates , we've got a couple copies of Doug Stanton's Horse Soldiers to give away, just in time for Father's Day. We reviewed Mr. Stanton's In Harm's Way I've sent the Other Brother the...
BrothersJudd Blog, June 4, 2009
...YOU OWE YOUR DAD: Thanks to our friends at FSB Associates , we've got a couple copies of Doug Stanton's Horse Soldiers to give away, just in time for Father's Day. We reviewed Mr. Stanton's In Harm's Way I've sent the Other Brother the...
Kaizenlog, May 25, 2009
...Review “Doug Stanton’s Horse Soldiers is as gripping as the most intricately plotted thriller. It is a masterwork of stunning military action, brilliant in-depth journalism, and powerful storytelling. Finally Americans can...
Twitter / Spencerante, May 11, 2009
...Went to a book party for Horse Soldiers at Half King, new book by Doug Stanton about US soldiers who defeated the Taliban in Afghanistan. 7:40 PM May 11th from TwitterBerry Spencerante Spencer Ante...