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. Late in the
afternoon of Sunday, October 3 1993, 140 elite US Soldiers abseiled
from helicopters into a teeming market neighbourhood in the heart
of the city. 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. Two of their high-tech
helicopters were shot out of the sky. 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
destined to become a classic of war reporting. It is already the
most accurate, detailed account of modern combat ever written.
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