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  1. Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War is a 1999 book by journalist Mark Bowden. It documents efforts by the Unified Task Force to capture Somali faction leader Mohamed Farrah Aidid in 1993, and the resulting battle in Mogadishu between United States forces and Aidid's militia.

    • Mark Bowden
    • 392
    • 1999
    • February 10, 1999
  2. Apr 13, 2010 · 2,274. #1 Best Seller in East Africa History. See all formats and editions. Already a classic of war reporting and now reissued as a Grove Press paperback, Black Hawk Down is Mark Bowden’s brilliant account of the longest sustained firefight involving American troops since the Vietnam War.

    • Mark Bowden
    • $13.23
    • Grove Press
  3. Feb 10, 1999 · 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.

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  7. A nonfiction book by Mark Bowden about the 1993 battle in Mogadishu, Somalia, where U.S. Special Forces were trapped and fought for their lives. Based on interviews, combat videos, and radio transcripts, the book captures the terror and exhilaration of war.

  8. Jan 1, 2002 · Black Hawk Down. $193.00. (713) Only 1 left in stock - order soon. 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.

    • Mark Bowden
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