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Genre/Form: | History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Bowden, Mark, 1951- Black Hawk down. New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, ©1999 (OCoLC)607113939 Online version: Bowden, Mark, 1951- Black Hawk down. New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, ©1999 (OCoLC)608924906 |
Named Person: | Mohammed Farah Aidid; Mohammed Farah Aidid; Mohammed Farah Aideed |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Mark Bowden |
ISBN: | 0871137380 9780871137388 0140288503 9780140288506 0451205146 9780451205148 |
OCLC Number: | 40135273 |
Notes: | "Portions of this book were originally published as a series in The Philadelphia inquirer." |
Awards: | Winner of ALA Notable Books (Nonfiction) 2000 Short-listed for National Book Awards (Nonfiction) 1999 Short-listed for Colorado Blue Spruce Award 2003 |
Description: | 386 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
Contents: | The Assault -- Black Hawk Down -- Overrun -- The Alamo -- N.S.D.Q. |
Responsibility: | Mark Bowden. |
More information: |
Abstract:
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.
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