Black Hawk Down
Subtitle: A Story of Modern War
Publisher: Signet
Published: August 7, 2001
Language: eng
Number of pages: 496
ISBN-13: 9780451203939
First sentence: At liftoff, Matt Eversmann said a Hail Mary.
Description: 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.