Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War

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Award-winning literary journalist Mark Bowden’s dramatic narrative captures this harrowing ordeal through the eyes of the young men who fought that day.

Mark does a good job of describing the characters involved, and more importantly, he doesn`t pull any punches, though he remains respectful of all the protagonists. The Americans had also badly underestimated their opponents’ capabilities and willingness to take them on.Those walls and buildings that had not been reduced to heaps of gray rubble were pockmarked with bullet scars.

One of the key events is the downing of two United States MH-60 Black Hawk helicopters, from which the book derives its title, and the attempt to rescue their crews. Telephone poles leaned at ominous angles like voodoo totems topped by stiff sprays of dreadlocks—the stubs of their severed wires (long since stripped for sale on the thriving black market). The men had girded themselves with extra ammo, stuffing magazines and grenades into every available pocket and pouch of their load-bearing harnesses, leaving behind canteens, bayonets, night-vision goggles, and any other gear they felt would be deadweight on a fast daylight raid.

Molto d'impatto e con testimonianze che ben evidenziano i crimini di guerra del reich usa nel mondo, oltre allo scarso addestramento e prep di soldati e ufficiali e al loro totale disinteresse per le vittime civili. They were bulky and had a mouthpiece and were connected by a long black cord to a plug on the ceiling. They were the cream, the most highly motivated young soldiers of their generation, selected to fit the army’s ideal—they were all male and, revealingly, nearly all white (there were only two blacks among the 140-man company). Special SCRIPT distributed to members of the Hollywood Foreign press for Golden Globes consideration.