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by Mark Bowden
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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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- Title Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War
- Author Mark Bowden
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: Repri
- Pages 392
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Group, New York
- Publication date 2000-03-01
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780140288506 / 0140288503
- Weight 0.8 lbs (0.36 kg)
- Dimensions 8.49 x 5.57 x 0.85 in (21.56 x 14.15 x 2.16 cm)
- Age range 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Reading level 970
- Category History - Military / War
- Library of Congress subjects United States - History, Operation Restore Hope, 1992-1993
- Library of Congress Catalogue Number 98046688
- Dewey Decimal Code 967.730
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