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From: Andi Wolos & Bob Necci

(POW-MIA InterNetwork)

Re: New Book - ANN

Date: March 28, 1999

Black Hawk Down

An thorough discussion of the 90 minute rescue mission gone terribly wrong, escalating into a 17 hour bloodbath in the streets of Mogadishu, Somalia.

Full of transcripts, radio traffic, interviews and a historical overview of the Aidid fiasco, Black Hawk Down provides readers with a birtual minute-by-minute account of the harrowing events of October 3rd, 1993. In the wake of the disastrous mission, America woke up the face of a battered POW pilot and coffins covered in flags while young widows, wearing the dog tags of their slaughtered young husbands, maneuvered the rows of headstones at Arlington.

A sobering book on the failures of policy, the complexities of multinational military missions and the wisdom or lack thereof of foreign intervention in civil wars.

BLACK HAWK DOWN
A Story of Modern War
By Mark Bowden
Atlantic Monthly Press
386 pp., illustrated, $24