Description
Product ID: | 9780552178976 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Title: | Black Hawk Down |
Authors: | Author: Mark Bowden |
Page Count: | 592 |
Subjects: | True war and combat stories, True war & combat stories |
Description: | Select Guide Rating 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. 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. |
Imprint Name: | Corgi Books |
Publisher Name: | Transworld Publishers Ltd |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2021-07-29 |