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A Story of Modern War
Signet
August 2001
On Sale: August 7, 2001
496 pages
ISBN: 0451203933
EAN: 9780451203939
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Ninety-nine elite American soldiers are trapped in the
middle of a hostile city. As night falls, they are
surrounded by thousands of enemy gunmen. Their wounded are
bleeding to death. Their ammunition and supplies are
dwindling. This is the story of how they got there -- and
how they fought their way out. This is the story of war. 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 firelight
American soldiers have fought since the Vietnam war. Late in the afternoon of Sunday, October 3, 1993, the
soldiers of Task Form Ranger was send on a mission to
capture two top lieutenants of a renegade 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, locked in a desperate struggle to kill or be killed. When the unit was finally rescued the following morning,
eighteen American soldiers were dead and dozens more badly
injured. The Somali toll was far worse; more than five
hundred felled and over a thousand wounded. Award-winning
literary journalist Mark Bowden's dramatic narrative
captures this harrowing ordeal through the eyes of the
young men who fought that day. He draws on his extensive
interviews of participants from both sides -- as well as
classified combat video and radio transcripts -- to bring
their stories to life. Authoritative, gripping, and insightful, Black Hawk Down is
a riveting look at the terror and exhilaration of combat
destined to become a classic of war reporting. --This text
refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this
title.
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