So, in working backwards and therefore in a nonlinear progression the film comes
from the book. And the book is Black Hawk Down.
In this case, it's a a tidying version so that lovely man, Josh Harnett, whose name
I can barely say, is on the cover of this as well.
That's published in 1999. We have before that the publication of
Mark Bowden's investigative journalism within the context of the Philadelphia
Enquirer. Now You will be used to just going to the
website and you will be expecting there to be sidebars and hot links and a whole
range of things. I find what the Philadelphia Inquirer and
Mark Bowden has done with those articles, in terms of a site which is now kept
going from I think the articles were published in around about 1997.
Very interesting. Because it has in a sort of a microcosm
created its own archival reference point. Now I'm going to go through some of the
pages in this site. I already encouraged you to go a little
earlier to go and look at it to give you a familiarization of the topic.
but let's just, I know I used the word reflect and reference just far too much
in this but let's just go and reflect on what we've seen here and reference to the
material. Now just going back through these, the
first thing to bear in mind is this is right in and it is a reflection back, as
I said, on what happened. Was it a success, how do we actually
consider it? I find this very interesting, as I said,
because at the very top, one of the things we have here is what is, a hotlink
to the garrison letter. This is Garrison's reflection immediately
after the event. He's considering the information that he
had that led him to make the decision to commit.
And then he's reflecting back on the, the factors that did not work so well.
I mean, 18 men dead I don't mean to underplay this.
