Each summer, as Lake Michigan finally begins to warm, I think of the men of the World War II cruiser Indianapolis and the worst disaster at sea in United States naval history. I go down to the lake, and I wonder: How would I have survived what they experienced? Doug Stanton Read Quote
I don’t think it’s healthy to have 68-year-old men, 70-year-old men thinking regularly about a traumatic experience that happened to them and thinking that they cannot talk about it with anybody, and no one wants to listen. Doug Stanton Read Quote
I’m really interested in how people face existential crises and either overcome them or don’t, and in how the human psyche responds. Doug Stanton Read Quote
The action of ‘Horse Soldiers’ is back-dropped by the story of how America went to war with little time to prepare – but with a lot of moxie. Doug Stanton Read Quote
Horse Soldiers’ is the untold story of how a small band of U.S. Special Forces soldiers secretly entered Afghanistan in 2001, just five weeks after September 11, saddled up on horses, and rode to an improbable victory against a vastly larger Taliban and Al Qaeda army. Doug Stanton Read Quote
One of the reasons I wrote ‘Horse Soldiers’ was to understand the world my children would inherit after the events of 2001. Doug Stanton Read Quote
While researching ‘Horse Soldiers,’ I conducted over 100 interviews in the U.S. and in Afghanistan, and in Afghanistan, I walked and studied key sites that appear in the book. I was able to capture not only the Americans’ point of view but the Afghans’ as well. Doug Stanton Read Quote
I like to tell stories about people trying to make the right, difficult decision at the least opportune moment… People in a crucible of an extraordinary circumstance. And then, how that experience changes their life. Doug Stanton Read Quote
As I traveled around the country on a book tour for ‘In Harm’s Way,’ I began learning how certain Indianapolis survivors had heard these voices – not necessarily the voice of God, but often that of someone who had fostered them and imparted an identity as a person who doesn’t quit. Doug Stanton Read Quote
