Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War.

BOWDEN, Mark.

$400.00

Item Number: 146263

New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1999.

First edition, early printing of the award-winning journalist’s account of the U.S. military raid in Mogadishu, adapted into the 2001 Academy Award-winning film. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “To Grant, Best Wishes, Mark Bowden.” Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Whitney Cookman. Author photograph by Peter Tobia.

Authoritative, gripping, and insightful, Black Hawk Down is a riveting look at the terror and exhilaration of combat, capturing the harrowing ordeal of the Mogadishu raid through the eyes of the men who thought that day. The book was adapted into the 2001 film of the same name directed by Ridley Scott and featuring an ensemble cast including Josh Hartnett, Ewan McGregor, Eric Bana, Tom Sizemore, William Fichtner, Sam Shepard, Jeremy Piven and Tom Hardy in his first film role. The film won two Academy Awards for Best Film Editing and Best Sound at the 74th Academy Awards. "A riveting up-close account of the most intensive, hand-to-hand combat by U.S. soldiers since Vietnam" (Robert Oakley).