Author: Mark Bowden

Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War

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Black Hawk Down
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Recounts a 1993 firefight in Mogadishu, Somalia, that resulted in the deaths of eighteen Americans and more than five hundred Somalis, examining the rationales behind the disastrous raid.