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 01 Open

    Duration: 31s
  • BlackHawkDown 02 TheAssult Chapter1

    Duration: 23min
  • BlackHawkDown 03 TheAssult Chapter2

    Duration: 23min
  • BlackHawkDown 04 TheAssult Chapter3

    Duration: 29min
  • BlackHawkDown 05 TheAssult Chapter4

    Duration: 05min
  • BlackHawkDown 06 TheAssult Chapter5

    Duration: 09min
  • BlackHawkDown 07 TheAssult Chapter6

    Duration: 20min
  • BlackHawkDown 08 TheAssult Chapter7

    Duration: 16min
  • BlackHawkDown 09 TheAssult Chapter8

    Duration: 02min
  • BlackHawkDown 10 TheAssult Chapter9

    Duration: 15min
  • BlackHawkDown 11 TheAssult Chapter10

    Duration: 01min
  • BlackHawkDown 12 TheAssult Chapter11

    Duration: 03min
  • BlackHawkDown 13 TheAssult Chapter12

    Duration: 16min
  • BlackHawkDown 14 TheAssult Chapter13

    Duration: 09min
  • BlackHawkDown 15 BlackHawkDown Chapter1

    Duration: 16min
  • BlackHawkDown 16 BlackHawkDown Chapter2

    Duration: 01min
  • BlackHawkDown 17 BlackHawkDown Chapter3

    Duration: 07min
  • BlackHawkDown 18 BlackHawkDown Chapter4

    Duration: 01min
  • BlackHawkDown 19 BlackHawkDown Chapter5

    Duration: 06min
  • BlackHawkDown 20 BlackHawkDown Chapter6

    Duration: 03min
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