Black Hawk Down - Brossura

Bowden, Mark

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0552147508 ISBN 13: 9780552147507

Casa editrice: Corgi, 2000

Riassunto

Already winning acclaim as one of the best accounts of combat ever written, Black Hawk Down is a minute-by-minute, heart-stopping account of the 1993 raid on Mogadishu, Somalia. Late in the afternoon of Sunday, October 3 1993, 140 elite US Soldiers abseiled from helicopters into a teeming market neighbourhood in the heart of the city. Their mission was to abduct two top lieutenants of a Somali 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 city, fighting for their lives against thousands of heavily armed Somalis. Two of their high-tech helicopters were shot out of the sky. When the unit was rescued the following morning, eighteen American soldiers were dead and more than seventy badly injured. The Somali toll was far worse - more than five hundred killed and over a thousand injured. Authoritative, gripping, and insightful, Black Hawk Down is destined to become a classic of war reporting. It is already the most accurate, detailed account of modern combat ever written.

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Recensione:

"'Rip-roaring stuff, with one of the most gruesome battlefield wound treatments ever committed to paper'" (Maxim)

"A thrilling and visceral no-holds-barred classic of modern war"

"'One of the most electrifying, immediate and detailed accounts of a single battle ever told...the whole 24-hour nightmare seems like it's happening to you'" (Later)

Descrizione del libro:

A thrilling and visceral, no-holds-barred portrayal of modern war.

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• Editore: Corgi
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0552147508
• ISBN 13: 9780552147507
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 576