Black Hawk Down

  • Author: Mark Bowden
  • Narrator: Alan Sklar
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster
  • Duration: 15:13:22
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Synopsis

Ninety-nine elite American soldiers are trapped in the middle of a hostile city. As night falls, they are surrounded by thousands of enemy gunmen: Their wounded are bleeding to death. Their ammunition and supplies are dwindling. This is the story of how they got there -- and how they fought their way out.
This is the story of war.
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 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. Award-winning literary journalist Mark Bowden's dramatic narrative captures this harrowing ordeal through the eyes of the voting 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.
Authoritative, gripping, and insightful, Black Hawk Down is a riveting look at the terror and exhilaration of combat, destined to become a classic of war reporting.

Chapters

  • BlackHawkDown 41 Overrun Chapter6b

    Duration: 16min
  • BlackHawkDown 42 Overrun Chapter7

    Duration: 09min
  • BlackHawkDown 43 Overrun Chapter8

    Duration: 04min
  • BlackHawkDown 44 Overrun Chapter9

    Duration: 09min
  • BlackHawkDown 45 Overrun Chapter10

    Duration: 02min
  • BlackHawkDown 46 Overrun Chapter11

    Duration: 25min
  • BlackHawkDown 47 Overrun Chapter12

    Duration: 04min
  • BlackHawkDown 48 Overrun Chapter13

    Duration: 11min
  • BlackHawkDown 49 Overrun Chapter14

    Duration: 06min
  • BlackHawkDown 50 Overrun Chapter15

    Duration: 06min
  • BlackHawkDown 51 Overrun Chapter16

    Duration: 43s
  • BlackHawkDown 52 Overrun Chapter17

    Duration: 08min
  • BlackHawkDown 53 Overrun Chapter18

    Duration: 04min
  • BlackHawkDown 54 Overrun Chapter19

    Duration: 02min
  • BlackHawkDown 55 Overrun Chapter20

    Duration: 02min
  • BlackHawkDown 56 TheAlamo Chapter1

    Duration: 05min
  • BlackHawkDown 57 TheAlamo Chapter2

    Duration: 18min
  • BlackHawkDown 58 TheAlamo Chapter3

    Duration: 14min
  • BlackHawkDown 59 TheAlamo Chapter4

    Duration: 15min
  • BlackHawkDown 60 TheAlamo Chapter5

    Duration: 06min
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