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4. Black Hawk Down (2001). Based on the 1999 book by journalist Mark Bowden (read it if you haven’t), the film depicts the disastrous Special Forces raid in Mogadishu, Somalia in 1993 to capture warlord Mohammed Farah Aidid. Part of the reason the film succeeds where so many contemporary war films fail is that it avoided a…
Paul Combs
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Both the book and the film were excellent!
This “trophy husband” writes fiction, poetry, narrative non-fiction, travel essays, music essays, book reviews, and essays about his belly button.
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