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 81 NSDQ Chapter13

    Duration: 02min
  • BlackHawkDown 82 NSDQ Chapter14

    Duration: 10min
  • BlackHawkDown 83 NSDQ Chapter15

    Duration: 08min
  • BlackHawkDown 84 NSDQ Chapter16

    Duration: 05min
  • BlackHawkDown 85 NSDQ Chapter17

    Duration: 06min
  • BlackHawkDown 86 NSDQ Chapter18

    Duration: 02min
  • BlackHawkDown 87 NSDQ Chapter19

    Duration: 03min
  • BlackHawkDown 88 NSDQ Chapter20

    Duration: 03min
  • BlackHawkDown 89 NSDQ Chapter21

    Duration: 06min
  • BlackHawkDown 90 NSDQ Chapter22

    Duration: 09min
  • BlackHawkDown 91 NSDQ Chapter23

    Duration: 10min
  • BlackHawkDown 92 NSDQ Chapter24

    Duration: 01min
  • BlackHawkDown 93 NSDQ Chapter25

    Duration: 02min
  • BlackHawkDown 94 NSDQ Chapter26

    Duration: 03min
  • BlackHawkDown 95 NSDQ Chapter27

    Duration: 05min
  • BlackHawkDown 96 EpilogueA

    Duration: 24min
  • BlackHawkDown 97 EpilogueB

    Duration: 20min
  • BlackHawkDown 98 Afterword Close

    Duration: 18min
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