Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War
Mark Bowden
Black Hawk Down won the #1 New York Times Bestseller designation. On October 3, 1993, about a hundred elite US soldiers were dropped by helicopter into the teeming market in the heart of Mogadishu, Somalia. Their mission was to abduct two top lieutenants of a Somali warlord and return to base. It was supposed to take an hour. Instead, they found themselves pinned down through a long and terrible night fighting against thousands of heavily armed Somalis. The following morning, eighteen Americans were dead and more than seventy had been badly wounded. Drawing on interviews from both sides, army records, audiotapes, and videos (some of the material is still classified), Bowden's minute-by-minute narrative is one of the most exciting accounts of modern combat ever written—a true story that captures the heroism, courage, and brutality of battle.
Buy this book at Amazon- Publisher
- Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
- Year
- 2010
- ISBN-13
- 9781555846046
- Genre
- History
- Topics
- Battle of MogadishuModern warfareUS military operations in Somalia
Awards
- Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Current InterestShortlisted(1999)
- National Book Award for NonfictionShortlistedMajor(1999)
Other awarded books from Mark Bowden
- Hue 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam
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