imyourmausoleum 's review for:

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

3.0

dark emotional informative sad tense medium-paced

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 This book is about US soldiers who were dropped into Mogadishu, Somalia via helicopter in 1993. They were supposed to capture two warlords and return to their base area, but that did not go according to plan. They wound up being pinned down by Somalians, resulting in seventy wounded US soldiers and eighteen killed. I first heard about this event because of the film, and I was very interested to learn that there was a book about the event. This was a tragic event, but it was a good book.