Black Hawk Down:: A Story of Modern War
by By Bowden, Mark
Category: History , Military , Strategy

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. Reprint. (A Columbia Pictures film, directed by Ridley Scott, starring Ewan McGregor, Tom Sizemore, Josh Hartnett, Sam Shepard, Jeremy Piven, Eric Bana, and Brendan Sexton, III) (Military History)