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BHD did a fairly good job. I writing about events as emotionaly charged as combat, people tend to dehumanize the other side (in this case the Somalis). Bowden was careful to avoid that as much as possible. He did, however, play favorites. The Ranger captain (name escapes me) come out looking like an idiot when compared the SF operators they were with. He actually did exactly what he was trained to do, and his descision probably saved the lives of many of his Rangers (who did not have the skill to fight their way out of the city at that stage of the hostilities), despite what the book implies.
Another very good book about Somalia is "Somalia on Five Dollars a Day" by Martin Stanton.
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