Derogatory nicknames, prostitution rings, firelighters with jam handed to children, it´s all happened. Bowden presented this engrossing story to readers in what initially felt like a dizzyingly chaotic manner, rapidly shifting back and forth between numerous different eyewitness perspectives. This is one of those great books that you can't put down; it reads like a novel, a fast paced narrative that can sometimes make you forget that it's a true life drama where real people die. Goodale told her it would be like, as a nurse, after all her training, never getting the chance to work in a hospital.

In Black Hawk Down, author Mark Bowden presents a riveting, minute-by-minute account of the battle, told from the perspective of the soldiers who fought for their lives in the narrow, dusty streets. Bowden has used his journalistic skills to kind and interview key participants on both sides of the October 1993 raid into the heart of Mogadishu, Somalia, a raid that quickly became the most intensive close combat Americans have engaged in since Vietnam. Mark Bowden is a journalist who took an interest in the disastrous 1993 mission to capture the warlord If you have already seen the 'Black Hawk Down' movie, even then give this book a try and you will be amazed with the power of written words; as Bowden captures each and every moment of the engagement - happening in both air and ground - with such vividness.With his rifle resting on a doorjamb, Howe placed his tritium sight post on the second man and began shooting on full automatic, sweeping his fire in a smooth motion over the third man. A tall, slender, gray-haired man in desert fatigues with half an unlit cigar jutting from the corner of his mouth, Garrison had walked from chopper to chopper and then stooped down by each Humvee. Gripping read and detailed account of the 1993 horrific operation in Mogadishu that resulted in American soldiers dead and wounded. Later, bodies would be dragged through streets, and the president would withdraw the troops, and the Somalis would celebrate “the Day of the Ranger.

Mark Bowden’s Black Hawk Down is a minute-by-minute reconstruction of the climactic battle in the short, ill-fated American military campaign in Mogadishu. They had traveled the world, to Korea, Thailand, Central America … they knew each other better than most brothers did. A gripping account of combat that merits thoughtful reading by anyone concerned with the future course of the country’s military strategy and its relationship to foreign policy.

With a good reporter’s attention to detail and a novelist’s appreciation of the lingo of the professional military, the author has written a vivid account of deadly, hand-to-hand urban fighting. Mark Bowden is the bestselling author of Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War, as well as The Best Game Ever, Bringing the Heat, Killing Pablo, and Guests of the Ayatollah.

A convoy of Humvees, rapidly filling with wounded, drove around in circles, unable to find the Black Hawk. At the time it served as one of the more innovative examples of multimedia storytelling by a news organization. The book by Bowden is a result of inspecting and studying mountains of official reports, investigation snapshots and even transcripts of communications between combat troops and conducting hundreds of exhaustive interviews with the participants from both side; this adds to the level of detailing that is placed into the narrative and it's authenticity.Although the Somalis died by the thousands in this battle, it was not viewed as a victory for American forces.