Mark Bowden was born in St. Louis, Missouri on July 17, 1951, and graduated from Loyola University of Maryland in 1973 with a B. A. in English literature. He then went on to write for The Philadelphia Inquirer from 1979 to 2003, and has also written for The New Yorker, Men’s Journal, The Atlantic, Sports Illustrated, and Rolling Stone.
He has written about a wide variety of topics and subjects from football, to war, to someone finding one million dollars cash, to drug lords; however he has written the most about war with his books black hawk Down: A Story of Modern War, Our Finest Day: D-Day, Guests of the Ayatollah: The First Battle in America’s War with Militant Islam, and The Finish: The Killing of Osama Bin Laden. Many people enjoy his style of writing with these books because they are very accurate on the accounts and he tells the story in the point of view of one soldier and makes it seem like you are in the battle and are fighting along with the soldier.
In black hawk down the main soldier that you follow through the book is Staff Sergeant Matt Eversmann. The entire book you reading through his mind and hear his thoughts about everything that is going on, from the basic training drills, to the point where all hell breaks loose and everything goes wrong. The novel starts off with the U. S. Army Rangers and Delta force going out on a practice mission over the town of Mogadishu in Somalia, North Africa. Sgt. Eversmann describes what it is like to fly in a Black Hawk up the coast of North Africa.
The Review on The Chocolate War book report 3444
The Chocolate War "The Chocolate War" by Robert Cormier is a realistic fiction book about one boy's struggles to fight for what is right in a school ruled by a group of sharp-witted, clever individuals. This group, known as the Vigils, play the largest role in the story. True, they're not exactly the people you want to be rooting for in the end, but they keep the story interesting. Because of this ...
Something that stood out to me was the fact that many of the soldiers during this time seemed to be overly confident to the point of being cocky, and I think that this played a big part in the downfall. They described themselves as being unstoppable, invincible, and indestructible. After going through the test run they go back to base they get a call from an informant telling them that there is a meeting between some of the top men on their radar that they want to either detain or kill.
They get the informant to mark the building and get everyone ready for the invasion of the building. However the militia gets informed before the U. S. troops show up and are waiting and ready for them. This made what the U. S. military thought was going to be an easy in and out operation, into a dangerous near impossible mission. While they were setting up the perimeter to send in the Army Rangers to the building to take care of everything inside the target building all of the militia was waiting for them and with one rocket was able to take out one of the top helicopters esigned by the United States military. After reading many book reviews about Black Hawk Down, many people said that it was a good read and that people liked and enjoyed reading the book; however I didn’t like the book that much because I thought that he wrote the book in too technical of terms and that it wasn’t so much for the everyday person to read unless they looked up many military terms because there were so many terms used throughout the book.
I thought that this made the book drag on because instead of keeping my attention on what was going on through the book and trying to figure out what every other word meant. A suggestion that I would make to the author is to use a less of the technical terms and get the attention of the readers and keep it by not using terms that not everyone knows. He obviously did very extensive research and knew what he was talking about with the book. He knew what he was talking about and I liked that he told everything exactly the way it happened. Black Hawk Down Name: Ed Hennessey Period: 5th Date Due: 12/17/12
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