Black Hawk Down

Paperback. 571 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Corgi, UK, 2000. *** CONDITION: This book is in very good condition. Lightly tanned pages. Minor reading creases to spine. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: 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 a teeming market neighbourhood in the heart of the city. Their mission was to abduct two top lieutenants of a Somali warlord and return to base. It was supposed to take them about an hour. Instead, they were pinned down through a long and terrible night in a hostile city, fighting for their lives against thousands of heavily armed Somalis. Two of their high-tech helicopters were shot out of the sky. When the unit was rescued the following morning, eighteen American soldiers were dead and more than seventy badly injured. The Somali toll was far worse - more than five hundred killed and over a thousand injured. Authoritative, gripping, and insightful, Black Hawk Down is destined to become a classic of war reporting. It is already the most accurate, detailed account of modern combat ever written. *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; Movie / TV Tie-in; ISBN: 0552999652. ISBN/EAN: 9780552999656. Inventory No: 13010031. Paperback

Product Info

ISBN: 0552999652

ISBN-13: 9780552999656

Publisher: Corgi

Year: 2000

Type: Used

Binding: Softcover

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