Black hearts : one platoon's plunge into madness in the triangle of death and the American struggle in Iraq / Jim Frederick.
Frederick, Jim, 1971-2014.
2010
DS79.764.M33 F74 2010 (Mapit)
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Title Black hearts : one platoon's plunge into madness in the triangle of death and the American struggle in Iraq / Jim Frederick.
Author Frederick, Jim, 1971-2014.
Edition 1st ed.
ISBN 9780307450753
0307450759
Imprint New York : Harmony Books, c2010.
Language English
Description xxiii, 439 p., [8] p. of plates : col. ill., map ; 25 cm.
Call Number DS79.764.M33 F74 2010
Dewey Decimal Classification 956.7044/3
Summary This is an unflinching account of a small group of soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division's fabled 502nd Infantry Regiment--a unit known as "the Black Heart Brigade." Deployed in late 2005 to Iraq's so-called Triangle of Death, the Black Hearts found themselves in the country's most dangerous location at its most dangerous time. Hit by near-daily attacks, suffering a particularly heavy death toll, and enduring a chronic breakdown in leadership, members of one platoon descended, over their year-long tour of duty, into a tailspin of poor discipline, substance abuse, and brutality. Four 1st Platoon soldiers would perpetrate one of the most heinous war crimes of the Iraq War--the rape of a fourteen-year-old Iraqi girl and the cold-blooded execution of her family. Drawing on in-depth interviews with Black Heart soldiers, this is a timeless story about the fragility of character in the savage crucible of warfare.--From publisher description.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Prelude : March 12, 2006
"We've got to get south Baghdad under control"
The Kunk gun
"This is now the most dangerous place in Iraq"
Relief in place, transfer of authority
1st Platoon at the JS Bridge
Contact
Route Sportster and Bradley Bridge
Communication breakdowns
The mean squad
"Soldiers are not stupid"
Nelson and Casica
"It is fucking pointless"
Britt and Lopez
Leadership shake-up
Gallagher
February 1
Fenlason arrives
Back to the TCPs
The Mayor of Mullah Fayyad
The Janabis
Twenty-one days
"We had turned a corner"
The Alamo
Dilemma and discovery
"Remember that murder of that Iraqi family"
The fight goes on
"This was life and death stuff"
Epilogue : The Triangle of Death today and trials at home.

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