Black Hawk Down

mark bowden

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. (Tie-in to November 2001 film directed by Ridley Scott and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer.) Read by Joe Morton, with an intro read by the author.

Genres historynonfictionmilitary fictionwarmilitary historyafricahistoricalamerican historypoliticsaudiobook

300 pages, Audio Cassette

First published February 10,1999

Literary awards

national book award finalist,

Places

mogadishu,

This edition

Format: 300 pages, Audio Cassette
Published: January 1, 2002 by Simon \u0026 Schuster Audio
ISBN: 9780743509909
ASIN: 0743509900
Language: English

About the author

mark bowden

Mark Bowden is an American journalist and writer. He is a former national correspondent and longtime contributor to The Atlantic. Bowden is best known for his book Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War (1999) about the 1993 U.S. military raid in Mogadishu, which was later adapted into a motion picture of the same name that received two Academy Awards.
Bowden is also known for the books Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the World's Greatest Outlaw (2001), about the efforts to take down Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar, and Hue 1968, an account of the Battle of Huế.