Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War
by Mark Bowden
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- Good+/No Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0451203933
- ISBN 13
- 9780451203939
- Seller
-
TORRINGTON, Wyoming, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
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.
Reviews
(Log in or Create an Account first!)
Details
- Bookseller
- PRAIRIE CREEK BOOKS & TEA LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 025342
- Title
- Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War
- Author
- Mark Bowden
- Illustrator
- Photographs and Maps
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- Paperback Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0451203933
- ISBN 13
- 9780451203939
- Publisher
- The New American Library (Signet)
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 2001
- Size
- Mass Market
- Keywords
- Mark Bowden, War, Mogadishu, Somalia, U.S. Special Forces, American Soldiers
Terms of Sale
PRAIRIE CREEK BOOKS & TEA LLC
10 day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 10 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
PRAIRIE CREEK BOOKS & TEA LLC
About PRAIRIE CREEK BOOKS & TEA LLC
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Mass Market
- Mass market paperback books, or MMPBs, are printed for large audiences cheaply. This means that they are smaller, usually 4...
- PB
- ...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.