Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War by Mark Bowden

Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War

Mark Bowden

nonfiction history reflective sad tense fast-paced

386 pages | first published 1999

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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 Soldier...
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informative 53%
challenging 46%
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reflective 33%
adventurous 26%
hopeful 6%

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slow 6%

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