num_pages: 300
description: A searing portrayal of modern warfare 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. (Tie-in to November 2001 film directed by Ridley Scott and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer.) Read by Joe Morton, with an intro read by the author.
language: English
title: Black Hawk Down
titlecomplete: Black Hawk Down
genres: Politics, Historical, Africa, Somalia, Military Fiction, American History, War, Nonfiction, History, Military History
ratings_count: 63002
places: Mogadishu
awards: awardedAt: 915177600000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Nonfiction
publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio