Black Hawk Down
A Story of Modern War
Recommended by Toby Young, and 1 others. See all reviewsRanked #5 in Military History, Ranked #6 in Military — see more rankings.
On October 3, 1993, about a hundred U.S. soldiers were dropped by helicopter into a teeming market in the heart of Mogadishu, Somalia, to abduct two top lieutenants of a Somali warlord. The action was supposed to take an hour. Instead, they spent a long and terrible night fighting thousands of armed Somalis. By morning, eighteen Americans were dead, and more than seventy badly injured. Mark Bowden's gripping 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. less
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Toby Young As a journalist who rarely leaves my desk, I don’t get an opportunity to do much reportage – but I get a vicarious thrill from reading it. Some of my favourite journalism books are examples of sustained reporting about a single subject – The Studio by John Gregory Dunne, for instance, and American Ground by William Langewiesche – but I don’t think I’ve enjoyed a book of reportage more than Black Hawk Down. (Source)
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- #33 in African History
- #85 in Business Competition
- #12 in Hope
- #23 in Modern History
- #84 in Strategy
- #28 in War
- #22 in Wars
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