In the Company of Heroes
Author: Michael J. Durant
In the autumn of 1993, American special forces were dispatched to the famine-stricken land of Somalia. Their intervention in this war-torn country was the most dramatic US military action since Vietnam. A routine mission went horribly wrong when Michael Durant’s Black Hawk helicopter was shot down over Mogadishu and he was quickly surrounded by Somali troops and taken capt….Read More
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