BlackHawk Down. By Mark Bowden Transworld Publishers Ltd 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
BlackHawk Down tells the story of the Battle of Mogadishu (Bowden refers to it as the Battle of the Black Sea), fought on October 3-4, 1993. The battle began as a snatch-and-grab mission, meant to capture two top lieutenants of the Somali warlord Mohammed Farrah Aidid, who was disrupting United Nations efforts to end a famine22 Black Hawk Down A Story Of Modern War Mark Bowden 2022-09-27 required reading for anyone who wants to understand what has happened in Haiti in
Themovie, which is based on journalist Mark Bowden’s 1999 book “Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War,” chronicles the costliest and longest sustained firefight the U.S. military had
MarkRobert Bowden (born July 17, 1951) is an American writer who is currently a contributing editor at Vanity Fair. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, and a 1973 graduate of Loyola College in Maryland, Bowden was a staff writer for The Philadelphia Inquirer from 1979-2003, and has won numerous awards. He has written for Men's Journal, The 5rsoEIe.