BATTLE OF MOGADISHU

First-hand accounts from the men of Task Force Ranger. On Sunday, 3rd October 1993, members of the elite American Rangers in Mogadishu attempted to capture the Somali warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid. As they descended from sixteen Black Hawk helicopters onto the streets of Mogadishu, Somali gunmen were waiting and opened fire from three directions. The Rangers sought cover and settled in for a wild firelight. Their mission was to go down in history as the fiercest ground combat seen by American forces since the Tet Offensive in 1968. This new blow-by-blow account, written by five soldiers who were there, sheds new light on the events of the two-day battle in Mogadishu that left sixteen Rangers dead and many more wounded. NOW AT A BARGAIN PRICE!