Summary Of The Book 'Black Hawk Down'

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In the part of N.S.D.Q. in the book Black Hawk Down, the army rangers who were stranded in Mogadishu, Somalia, have made it back to a Pakistani base. The base was an abandoned soccer stadium and was being used to house all of the rangers who were stuck in Mogadishu for just less than 24 hours, being shot at and killed by Somali civilians. The men who were stranded were picked up by Malaysian men and were taken back to the soccer stadium. The men knew that they had been defeated, and they were all very saddened about all of the deaths that had happened out in the city. The men who had been killed were all being remembered in all of the rangers’ minds who had survived, knowing that it was their brothers and best friends that they would never

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