Black Hawk Down : a story of modern war
(2019, original release: 1999)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
967.7305/BOWDEN,M
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Grove Press, [2019]
©1999
©1999
EDITION
Twentieth anniversary edition
DESCRIPTION
382 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780802144737, 080214473X
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
"Portions of this book were originally published as a series in The Philadelphia inquirer"--Title page verso
The assault -- Black hawk down -- Overrun -- The Alamo -- N.S.D.Q
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