Bowden, Mark

Black Hawk Down

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ISBN 13:: 9780552178976
author:: Bowden, Mark
format:: Paperback / softback
publisher:: Corgi Books
language:: English
Publication Year:: 2021
Pages:: 592
Dimensions:: 19.8 x 12.7 x 3.5 centimetres (0
Genre:: Biography, General, Biography,
Condition:: New
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£12.24

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Black Hawk Down is a minute-by-minute account of the 1993 raid on Mogadishu, Somalia, in which 140 elite US soldiers were deployed to abduct two top lieutenants of a Somali warlord. The mission was supposed to take about an hour, but it turned into a long and terrible night in a hostile city, with the soldiers fighting for their lives against thousands of heavily armed Somalis.

Two of their high-tech helicopters were shot out of the sky, and when the unit was rescued the following morning, 18 American soldiers were dead and more than 70 badly injured. The Somali toll was far worse, with over 500 killed and over 1,000 injured. This gripping and insightful account of modern combat is the most accurate and detailed account of its kind ever written.

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