Black hearts : one platoon's plunge into madness in the triangle of death and the American struggle in Iraq / Jim Frederick.

1st ed.

9780307450753
0307450759

New York : Harmony Books, c2010.

English

xxiii, 439 p., [8] p. of plates : col. ill., map ; 25 cm.

DS79.764.M33 F74 2010

956.7044/3

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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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