Mark Bowden Quote

Attacks. George Romney, the governor of Michigan and a Republican candidate for president, told newspaper editors, If what we have seen in the past week is a Viet Cong failure, then I hope they never have a victory.25 On

Mark Bowden

Attacks. George Romney, the governor of Michigan and a Republican candidate for president, told newspaper editors, If what we have seen in the past week is a Viet Cong failure, then I hope they never have a victory.25 On

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About Mark Bowden

Mark Bowden (; born 1951) is an American journalist and writer. He is a former national correspondent and longtime contributor to The Atlantic. He is best known for his book Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War (1999) about the 1993 U.S. military raid in Mogadishu, Somalia. It was adapted as a motion picture of the same name that received two Academy Awards.
Bowden is also known for Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the World's Greatest Outlaw (2001) about the efforts to take down Pablo Escobar, a Colombian drug lord, and for "Hue 1968," an account of the most significant battle of the Vietnam War.