
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 & return to base It was supposed to take them about an hour Instead they were pinned down through a long & 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 & more than seventy badly injured The Somali toll was far worse
- more than five hundred killed & over a thousand injured Authoritative gripping & 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