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Feb 10, 1999 · Two Black Hawk Helicopters were shot down by RPGs and the situation escalated into the “longest sustained firefight involving American troops since the Vietnam War.” The American soldiers found themselves fighting with thousands of armed Somalis, trapped in a city where everyone is potential threat.
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Apr 13, 2010 · Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War. Paperback – Illustrated, 13 April 2010. Already a classic of war reporting and now reissued as a Grove Press paperback, Black Hawk Down is Mark Bowden's brilliant account of the longest sustained firefight involving American troops since the Vietnam War.
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Books. Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War. Mark Bowden. Penguin Books, 2000 - History - 392 pages. An operation to abduct a Somali warlord in 1993 Mogadishu leaves 18 Americans...
- Mark Bowden
- Penguin Books, 2000
- illustrated, reprint
Apr 13, 2010 · Drawing on interviews from both sides, army records, audiotapes, and videos (some of the material is still classified), Bowden’s minute-by-minute narrative is one of the most exciting accounts of modern combat ever written a riveting story that captures the heroism, courage, and brutality of battle. Read more.
- Mark Bowden
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- Grove Press
Apr 1, 2010 · On October 3, 1993, about a hundred elite US soldiers were dropped by helicopter into the teeming market in the heart of Mogadishu, Somalia. Their mission was to abduct two top lieutenants of a Somali warlord and return to base. It was supposed to take an hour.
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Aug 1, 2001 · A searing portrayal of modern warfare recounts a 1993 firefight in Mogadishu, Somalia, that resulted in the deaths of eighteen Americans and more than five hundred Somalis, examining the rationales behind the disastrous raid. Reprint.
- Mark Bowden
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Instead, they spent a long and terrible night fighting thousands of armed Somalis. By morning, eighteen Americans were dead, and more than seventy badly injured. Mark Bowden's gripping narrative is...
