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Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War

by Mark Bowden · 2010

#1 New York Times Bestseller: The "riveting" account of the 1993 operation in Mogadishu—the longest sustained firefight involving US troops since Vietnam ( The Wall Street Journal). On October 3, 1993, about a hundred elite US soldiers were dropped by helicopter into the teeming market in the heart of Mogadishu, Somalia. 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, eig

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