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Currently a vintage of war reporting and now re-issued as a Grove Press book, Black Hawk Down is Mark Bowden’s amazing consideration of the longest sustained firefight involving American soldiers because the Vietnam War. On October 3, 1993, in regards to a hundred elite U.S. troops were dropped by helicopter in to the market in one's heart of Mogadishu, Somalia. Their mission was to abduct two top lieutenants of the Somali warlord and go back to base.