Black Hawk Down
By: Mark Bowden
Black Hawk Down, by Mark Bowden is a book based on actual events that took place in Mogadishu, Somalia. The operation known as "Black Hawk Down" was code named "IRENE".
In October 1993, a group of US soldiers went to Somalia as part of a U.N. Peacekeeping operation. Their mission was to capture several top lieutenants of the Somali warlords Mohamed Farrah Aidid.
The operation started by an elite group of American Rangers and Delta Force soldiers who were sent to Somalia on a critical mission to capture a violent warlord whose corrupt regime had lead to the starvation of hundreds of thousands of Somalis. When the mission goes quickly and terribly wrong, the men find themselves outnumbered and literally fighting for their lives.
The mission was supposed to take about an hour. Instead, a large portion of the assault force was stranded through a long night in a hostile city, surrounded and fighting for their lives. Two of their high-tech MH-60......
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