Project 4: Black Hawk Down The book “Black Hawk Down”, is read in many classrooms across the United States. This book can lead a lasting impact on the teens that have an opportunity to read this book about the United States attempt to capture Mohamed Farrah Aidid, a Somali warlord. This story has been knowingly picked by many highschool teachers because they know how it affects teens. This book is pretty much a play-by-play of a quite recent war that occurred in Mogadishu. Teens today would really benefit from reading this book. The author, Mark Bowden, traveled to Mogadishu and interviewed Somali soldiers that fought in the war. What he wrote has left, and is still leaving, students with nationalist, socialist, and academic effect. Students
