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Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War is a 1999 book by journalist Mark Bowden. It documents efforts by the Unified Task Force to capture Somali faction leader Mohamed Farrah Aidid in 1993, and the resulting battle in Mogadishu between United States forces and Aidid's militia.
- Mark Bowden
- 1999
By morning, eighteen Americans were dead, and more than seventy badly injured. Mark Bowden's gripping narrative is one of the most exciting accounts of modern war ever written--a riveting story that captures the heroism, courage and brutality of battle.
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- Hardcover
Apr 13, 2010 · Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War. Paperback – Illustrated, April 13, 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.
- Mark Bowden
- $13.23
- Grove Press
Black Hawk Down. Paperback – Feb. 22 2022. Already winning acclaim as one of the best accounts of combat ever written, Black Hawk Down is a minute-by-minute, heart-stopping account of the 1993 raid on Mogadishu, Somalia.
- (639)
- Paperback
- Mark Bowden
Apr 1, 2010 · Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War. Kindle Edition. #1 New York Times Bestseller: The “riveting” account of the 1993 operation in Mogadishu—the longest sustained firefight involving US troops since Vietnam (The Wall Street Journal).
- (2.2K)
- Mark Bowden
Already winning acclaim as one of the best accounts of combat ever written, Black Hawk Down is a minute-by-minute, heart-stopping account of the 1993 raid on Mogadishu, Somalia.
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Black Hawk Down drops you into a crowded marketplace in the heart of Mogadishu, Somalia with the U.S. Special Forces’and puts you in the middle of the most intense firefight American soldiers have fought since the Vietnam War.
