01914cam a2200325 4500 608021008 TxAuBib 20221024120000.0 980929s1999||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 98046688 9780871137388 0871137380 (OCoLC)40135273 TxAuBib Bowden, Mark, 1951- Black Hawk Down : a Story of Modern War / Mark Bowden. 1st ed. New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, [1999] ©1999. 386 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. "Portions of this book were originally published as a series in The Philadelphia inquirer.". Donation from SWOJC. Destined to become a classic of war reporting,Black Hawk Down is Mark Bowden's brilliant account of the longest sustained firefight involving American troops since the Vietnam War. On October 3,1993,about a hundred elite soldiers were dropped by helicopters into the teeming market in the heart of Mogadishu, Samalia. Their mission was to abduct two top lieutenants of a Somali warlord and return to base. It was supposed to take an hour. Instead they found themselves pinned down through a long and terrible night fighting against thousands of heavily armed Somalis. The following morning eighteen Americans were dead and more than seventy badly injured. Bowden's minute-by minute 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. 20221024. Aidid, Mohammed Farah, 1934- United States Army Task Force Ranger History. United States Army Task Force Ranger. Operation Restore Hope, 1992-1993. United States.