Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War (Record no. 473)
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| fixed length control field | 01924nam a2200205 4500 |
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| LC control number | 98046688 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780871137388 |
| 024 ## - OTHER STANDARD IDENTIFIER | |
| Standard number or code | 40135273 |
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| Classification number | DT407.4 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 967.73053 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Mark Bowden |
| 245 1# - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Atlantic Monthly Press |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 320 pages |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | Black Hawk Down drops you into a crowded marketplace in the heart of Mogadishu, Somalia with the U.S. Special Forces - and puts you in the middle of the most intense firefight American soldiers have fought since the Vietnam War. Late in the afternoon of Sunday, October 3, 1993, the soldiers of Task Force Ranger were sent on a mission to capture two top lieutenants of a renegade warlord and return to base. It was supposed to take them about an hour. Instead, they were pinned down through a long and terrible night in a hostile city, locked in a desperate struggle to kill or be killed. When the unit was finally rescued the following morning, eighteen American soldiers were dead and dozens more badly injured. The Somali toll was far worse: more than five hundred killed and over a thousand wounded. Mark Bowden's dramatic narrative captures this harrowing ordeal through the eyes of the young men who fought that day. He draws on his extensive interviews of participants from both sides - as well as classified combat video and radio transcripts - to bring their stories to life. A Black Hawk pilot is shot down and besieged by an angry mob, then saved by Somalis who plan to ransom him to the local warlord. A medic desperately tries to keep his grievously wounded friend alive long enough to be evacuated - only to have him bleed to death in his arms. The company clerk, who is the butt of jokes in the barracks, rises to the task and performs extraordinary feats of valor. |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element | War |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Military |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element | History - Africa |
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| Lake Chapala Society | Lake Chapala Society | 07/17/2024 | 967 BOWD | 15371 | 07/17/2024 | 1 | 07/17/2024 | Book |