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Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War

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By Mark Bowden
Publisher Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated - (Signet)
Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War
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In 1993, a band of U.S. soldiers in Somalia were on a mission to capture two lieutenants of a Somali warlord. Through the night, in the longest sustained fighting by American troops since Vietnam, they battled thousands of armed Somalis. By morning, 18 Americans were dead. Now a major motion picture from Columbia Pictures, directed by Ridley Scott and starring Ewan McGregor, Josh Hartnett, and Sam Shepard, set for release in March 2002.

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135771 words135,771 words
496 pages496 pages
Lexile 970LLexile 970L
Published 2000Published 2000

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9780451205148

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