Black Hawk Down is the author’s history book
Black Hawk Down takes you into a crowded market in the heart of Mogadishu, Somalia with US Special Forces and puts you in the midst of the fiercest firelight that American soldiers have fought since the Vietnam War.
In 1993, Special Forces Rangers were sent on a mission to capture two top lieutenants of a rebel warlord and return to base. It is supposed to take about an hour. Instead, they are gripped in a long and terrible night, locked in a desperate struggle to kill or be killed.
When the last unit was rescued the next morning, 18 American soldiers were dead and dozens more were seriously injured. The numbers in Somalia are much worse; More than five hundred people were cut down and more than a thousand people were injured. The dramatic story of award-winning literary journalist Mark Bowden captures this daunting ordeal through the eyes of the young men who fought that day.
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Black Hawk Down
