Piloting a U.S. Army Special Operations Blackhawk over Somalia, Michael Durant was shot down with a rocket-propelled grenade on October 3, 1993. With devastating injuries, he was taken prisoner by a Somali warlord. With revealing insight and emotion, he tells the story of what he saw, how he survived, and the courage and heroism that only soldiers under fire could ever know.

Revealing never-before-told stories with the incisive thought and emotion of one who was there, this personal story behind "Black Hawk Down" "is one of great bravery, of going to hell and making it back alive" ("Indianapolis Star").

"Durant's experience is one of the most harrowing in the history of the American military, and one of the most compelling ever told." - from the Introduction by Mark Bowden, author of Black Hawk Down