02308cam a2200337 4500 570507954 TxGeo 20220503120000.0 ||||||s2010||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781555846046 1555846041 B008X5XP9M Amazon 1b410666-dd6a-4c8a-9df4-2f89a4fa6a05 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 1267527 OverDrive (Product ID) TxGeo Bowden, Mark, 1951- Black Hawk Down [Libby] : A Story of Modern War. Grove Atlantic, 2010. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 3399kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. History. Military. Nonfiction. HTML:Already a classic of war reporting and now reissued as a Grove Press paperback, <i>Black Hawk Down</i> is Mark Bowden’s brilliant account of the longest sustained firefight involving American troops since the Vietnam War. On October 3, 1993, about a hundred elite U.S. 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, eighteen Americans were dead and more than seventy had been badly wounded.<br /> Drawing on interviews from both sides, army records, audiotapes, and videos (some of the material is still classified), Bowden’s minute-by-minute narrative is one of the most exciting accounts of modern combat ever written—a riveting story that captures the heroism, courage, and brutality of battle. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2022-07-02 20:00:03. https://samples.overdrive.com/black-hawk-down?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/black-hawk-down?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/black-hawk-down?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read) QS5