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Black Hawk Down: The Extraordinary Story of the Most Dramatic US Military Operation Since Vietnam
by Bowden, Mark
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- Good
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Good/Not Applicable
- ISBN 10
- 0552147508
- ISBN 13
- 9780552147507
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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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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- WAR23
- Title
- Black Hawk Down: The Extraordinary Story of the Most Dramatic US Military Operation Since Vietnam
- Author
- Bowden, Mark
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Not Applicable
- Edition
- First Thus
- ISBN 10
- 0552147508
- ISBN 13
- 9780552147507
- Publisher
- Corgi Books
- Place of Publication
- London, England
- Date Published
- 2000
- Keywords
- USA MILITARY; BLACK HAWK; WAR, Military, Mark Bowden
- Bookseller catalogs
- War/Military;
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall
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- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...