Publishers Weekly reviewed it as a good look into war, and engaging, though lacking in introspection and sometimes off-topic. The book was a New York Times bestseller. Durant was portrayed by Ron Eldard in the film Black Hawk Down, based on Bowden's book. It was loosely based on the video game of the same name. The introduction is written by Mark Bowden, author of the book Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War. The screenplay was co-written by Danny Bilson and Paul De Meo. Durant became a prisoner of Somali warlord Mohamed Farah Aidid for 11 days. MSG Gary Gordon and SFC Randy Shughart volunteered to try to protect the pilot from the mob while Durant was severely injured, he survived, but Gordon and Shughart did not, and were posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for their bravery. In the Battle of Mogadishu, the MH-60 Black Hawk helicopter code-named Super Six-Four that Durant was piloting was shot down over Somalia by a rocket-propelled grenade on October 3, 1993, and he was attacked by a mob and had to fight for his life. Nate and his squad are briefed by his superiors that they will not receive any recognitions or rewards and they must keep the secret of their mission in order to keep the secrets of the atomic bomb.In the Company of Heroes is a book by Michael Durant and Steven Hartov about Durant's experiences in the Battle of Mogadishu, Korea, the Persian Gulf, Thailand, Panama, and Iraq. The squad, Doctor Gruenenwald and Kestrel safely reach Allied-controlled territory. Ivan escaped with the documents of Gruenewald's research. In the end, the squad manages to escape the Nazi facility as the Allied bombers decimate the place. Discovered and pursued, the Allies make a series of hair-breadth escapes from vastly superior numbers of well-armed Nazi soldiers and finally make contact with a woman named Kestrel, their link to the atomic bomb and to the scientist Dr. There, they are joined by escaped British airman Brent Willoughby and Red Army soldier Ivan Puzharsky. and the more experienced Dean Ransom (a cook who had been demoted from Lieutenant after the D-Day landings) lead them deep into Nazi territory. With their sergeant and other NCOs dead, the youngest of the soldiers, Nate Burrows Jr. The OSS agent, knowing that he is near death, asks the soldiers to complete his mission: to find the bomb disable it and extract the scientist developing it, who wishes to defect. They come across an American OSS agent suffering from horrific burn wounds, and learn that the Germans are close to development of a super-bomb which will enable them to turn the tide of war and achieve victory. En route, they stumble across a German experimental site, still smoldering with flames from some devastating event. After a fierce firefight, the Americans escape and try to make their way back to their own lines to report the German surge. With the Germans apparently near defeat in the latter part of World War II, a squad of American soldiers from the 2nd Infantry Division on a routine mission near Elsenborn in the Belgian Ardennes encounter a surprisingly strong German tank destroyer and infantry force. De Meo would later write Company of Heroes 2. The screenplay was co-written by Danny Bilson and Paul De Meo. Company of Heroes is a 2013 American direct-to-video war thriller film directed by Don Michael Paul.
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