Black Hawk down

a story of modern war

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Author

Mark Bowden

Publication

2010 - Grove Press, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

99,000 words, Guess

Page Count

396 pages

Identifiers

Internet Archiveblackhawkdownsto00mark
ISBN-139780802144737
ISBN-10080214473X
OCLC Control Number456177378
Better World Books9780802144737

and 1 more

Open LibraryOL26329928M

Classifications

DDC963
LCCDT407.4 .B69 2010

Description

Late in the afternoon of Sunday, 3 October 1993, 140 elite US soldiers abseiled from helicopters into a teeming market neighbourhood in the heart of the city of Mogadishu, Somalia. Their mission was to abduct two top lieutenants of a Somali warlord and return to base. It was supposed to take them about an hour. Instead, they were pinned down through a long and terrible night in a hostile city, fighting for their lives against thousands of heavily armed Somalis. When the unit was rescued the following morning, eighteen American soldiers were dead and more than seventy badly injured. The Somali toll was far worse – more than five hundred killed and over a thousand injured. Authoritative, gripping, and insightful, *Black Hawk Down* is a heart-stopping, minute-by-minute account of modern war and is destined to become a classic of war reporting.

Description

Recounts a 1993 firefight in Mogadishu, Somalia, that resulted in the deaths of eighteen Americans and more than five hundred Somalis, examining the rationales behind the disastrous raid.