Black Hawk, Down
About this book
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.
Subjects
- african politics
- african politics & government
- aidid, mohammed farah, 1934-
- arab representation in popular fiction
- chuan ji
- east african history
- etats-unis
- etats-unis. army
- fiction
- fiction subjects
- history
- individual wars
- military missions
- misiones militares
- mogadiscio (somalia)
- mogadiscio (somalia) -- estados unidos -- misiones militares
- mogadishu (somalia) -- united states -- military missions
- operation restore hope, 1992-1993
- operation restore hope (1992-1993) fast (ocolc)fst01046349
- reading level-grade 11
- reading level-grade 12
- somalia, history, 1991-
- somalie
- suo ma li ya zhan zheng(1993)
- united states
- united states armed forces
- united states, army
- united states. army
- united states, army, special forces
- united states. army. task force ranger
- united states. army. task force ranger -- history
- united states history - 20th century - 1945 to 2000
- u.s. politics in the post cold-war era