Reddit reviews Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War

I'm almost positive it's in the book by Mark Bowden
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I highly recommend it, the story jumps around perspectives from solders on both sides as well as civilians. It's a great representation of modern combat.

If anybody's down for some really interesting reading, Black Hawk Down tells the whole story that they couldn't fit into the movie.

The author, Mark Bowden, has lots of other great reads too!

Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War by Mark Bowden which was turned into an okay film

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Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War https://www.amazon.com/dp/080214473X/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_okomDbPWGERE3

That's just not true. Losers write a lot of history:

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=node%3D9&field-keywords=Vietnam+War

...and:

http://www.amazon.com/Black-Hawk-Down-Story-Modern/dp/080214473X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1373240741&sr=1-1&keywords=Blackhawk+Down

...and:

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=Bay+of+Pigs

...and:

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=Little+Bighorn&rh=n%3A283155%2Ck%3ALittle+Bighorn

...and

http://www.amazon.com/Inside-Third-Reich-Albert-Speer/dp/0684829495/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1373240790&sr=1-3&keywords=Albert+Speer

This chap was on the losing side in two world wars:

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_1_8?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=mein+kampf+by+adolf+hitler&sprefix=Mein+Kam%2Cstripbooks%2C142&rh=n%3A283155%2Ck%3Amein+kampf+by+adolf+hitler

Then again, losers of battles and wars have good reason to think about what they did wrong and write about it.

Also you need to understand that victory and defeat are not always decisive and clear-cut. Victors like the Sioux, Vietnamese, and Somalis, were not in a position to dictate terms and do whatever they wanted with the vanquished.

>Journalism demands briefness and articles have rigid schemes to follow, so creativity wasn't always welcome.

Fuck them.

Black Hawk Down, by Mark Bowden.

Seabiscuit, by Laura Hillenbrand.

Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas, by Hunter Thompson.

Roughing It, by Mark Twain.

These are four books--all creative, funny, dramatic, informative and beautifully written--by reporters.

Read them and study them. Copy the techniques they use, how they craft sentences, how they lead into the stories they tell, how they turn interviews into characters narrating their events.

And then practice. Over and over and over.

These are the books we read in my Africa in Popular Media and African History classes in college. I highly recommend all of them:

They Poured Fire on Us From the Sky

God Grew Tired of Us

A Long Way Gone

A Continent for the Taking

Black Hawk Down

Country of My Skull

Kaffir Boy

Machete Season: the Killers in Rwanda Speak

The Graves Are Not Yet Full

An Ordinary Man