Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War

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The movie is a gore-fest, but the book chronicles all the background intricacies that you can't find in a movie (of course).

What´s not to say that this provided a hotbed for anti-Western sentiments that the radical islamist have fed on since?The book also stands out as giving a snap shot of US foreign policy opinion prior to 9/11, Iraq and Afghanistan. As the helicopter force swept in over it, gliding back in from the ocean and then banking right and sprinting northeast along the city's western edge, Mogadishu spread beneath them in its awful reality, a catastrophe, the world capital of things-gone-completely-to-hell It was as if the city had been ravaged by some fatal urban disease.

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 target was a three-story house of whitewashed stone with a flat roof, a modern modular home in one of the city’s few remaining clusters of intact large buildings, surrounded by blocks and blocks of tin-roofed dwellings of muddy stone.He has written for Men's Journal, The Atlantic Monthly, Sports Illustrated, and Rolling Stone over the years, and as a result of his book, Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War, Bowden's received international recognition.

Also: Attached to fron end page is a small color photo SIGNED by MICHAEL DURANT --pilot of one of the Black Hawk helecoptors shot down in Mogadishu. If you like reading military non-fiction books, then I would strongly urge you to give this one a try. irregular opponents who adopt to asymmetrical warfare and counter Western technological superiority by using terrain, subterfuge, or hiding among the population. He has been a reporter at The Philadelphia Inquirer for eighteen years and has won many national awards for his writing.The descriptions match in print what the film Private Ryan showed on-screen re the bloodiness and horror of actual combat. That is the very strong criticism on the leadership (although Bowden often uses the Delta Force participants to voice it) and the Somali side of the experience. Uninterested in sharing power, Mohamed Farrah Aidid began to regard the ongoing UN mission as hostile and ambushed a peacekeeping convoy in June 1993, killing 24 Pakistani soldiers. At the cost of a little initial confusion, Bowden is able to modulate tempo and rhythm, and give the reader what the soldiers involved were denied: a break in the nonstop fighting. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.

In their own words, Mark Bowden has captured the heroism, honor, and horror of the battle of Mogadishu for both Americans and Somalis. If Black Hawk Down were fiction, we’d rank it up there with the best war novels, The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer, or The Things They Carried by Tim o’Brien.The fallout from this engagement was far reaching as this ' incident' forced the Clinton administration to totally withdraw American troops from Somalia. S. Army Rangers from Bravo Company, 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment-Delta and Air Force men and helicopters from 1st Battalion, 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment. S. Rangers providing security, to drop into Aidid’s neighborhood in broad daylight, quickly detain their targets, and get out.