"Doorway to Hell: Disaster in Somalia" by Brig. General Ed Wheeler and Lt. Colonel Craig Roberts.
It started as a mission of mercy. But within weeks it deteriorated into a quagmire of politics, intrigue and blood.
They landed to save the people. But before it was over, 45 Americans would lay dead, their blood soaked into the hot sand of a country few Americans understood or even cared about. We were not at war with it, nor did it threaten our economy or well being. And it held no national interest for us, or the West....or did it?
From the initial landings to the Battle on No Name Street to the final extraction under fire, Operations Restore Hope and Continue Hope proved to be an enigma wrapped in a puzzle. Why were we really there, and what went wrong?
Doorway to Hell: Disaster in Somalia brings you the answers, supplied by both extensive research and from interviews with veterans who were there.
From the bullet-scared rubble of Mogadishu to the bone yards of the outback, Doorway to Hell tells it you.
Hardcover, 269 pages. ($24.95)
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