Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War
by Bowden, Mark
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- Used - Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0451203933
- ISBN 13
- 9780451203939
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Synopsis
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.
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- Wonder Book (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- F07A-03505
- Title
- Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War
- Author
- Bowden, Mark
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0451203933
- ISBN 13
- 9780451203939
- Publisher
- Signet
- Place of Publication
- Bergenfield, New Jersey, U.s.a.
- This edition first published
- August 7, 2001
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