Black Hawk down
a story of modern war
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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United states, army, Operation restore hope, 1992-1993, Mogadiscio (Somalia), United States. Army. Task Force Ranger, Misiones militares, Military missions, United States, History, Reading Level-Grade 11, Reading Level-Grade 12, Somalia, history, 1991-, United states, army, special forces, Operation Restore Hope (1992-1993) fast (OCoLC)fst01046349, Arab Representation in Popular Fiction, United States. Army, Aidid, Mohammed Farah, 1934-, United States. Army. Task Force Ranger -- History, Mogadiscio (Somalia) -- Estados Unidos -- Misiones militares, Mogadishu (Somalia) -- United States -- Military missions, Fiction, East african history, Individual wars, U.s. politics in the post cold-war era, United states history - 20th century - 1945 to 2000, African politics, African politics & government, United states armed forces, Fiction subjectsTimes
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Black Hawk down: a story of modern war
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2002, RBA Libros, Océano, Oceano De Mexico
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