Black Hawk Down

Mark Bowden

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Corgi Books
01 November 2021

True war & combat stories; History

A thrilling and visceral, no-holds-barred portrayal of modern war.

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.

By: Mark Bowden
Imprint: Corgi Books
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 197mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 40mm
Weight: 409g
ISBN: 9780552178976
ISBN 10: 0552178977
Pages: 592
Publication Date: 01 November 2021
Audience: Professional and scholarly , General/trade , College/higher education , Undergraduate , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Mark Bowden is the author of Bringing the Heat and Doctor Dealer. He has been a reporter at The Philadelphia Inquirer for eighteen years and has won many national awards for his writing. He has also written for Sports Illustrated, Playboy, Rolling Stone, Parade and other magazines.

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'Rip-roaring stuff, with one of the most gruesome battlefield wound treatments ever committed to paper' * Maxim * A thrilling and visceral no-holds-barred classic of modern war 'One of the most electrifying, immediate and detailed accounts of a single battle ever told...the whole 24-hour nightmare seems like it's happening to you' * Later *

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