num_pages: 432
description: Piloting a U.S. Army Special Operations Blackhawk over Somalia, Michael Durant was shot down with a rocket-propelled grenade on October 3, 1993. With devastating injuries, he was taken prisoner by a Somali warlord. With revealing insight and emotion, he tells the story of what he saw, how he survived, and the courage and heroism that only soldiers under fire could ever know.
language: English
title: In the Company of Heroes: The Personal Story Behind Black Hawk Down
titlecomplete: In the Company of Heroes: The Personal Story Behind Black Hawk Down
genres: History, American History, War, Biography, Somalia, Military History, Africa, Memoir, Nonfiction, Military Fiction
ratings_count: 5454
publisher: Berkley Books