black hearts

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This is the story of a small group of soldiers from the 101stAirborne Division’s fabled 502nd Infantry Regiment—a unit known as“the Black Heart Brigade.” Deployed in late 2005 to Iraq’sso-called Triangle of Death, a veritable meat grinder just south ofBaghdad, the Black Hearts found themselves in arguably thecountry’s most dangerous location at its most dangerous time.Hit by near-daily mortars, gunfire, and roadside bomb attacks,suffering from a particularly heavy death toll, and enduring achronic breakdown in leadership, members of one Black Heartplatoon—1st Platoon, Bravo Company, 1st Battalion—descended, overtheir year-long tour of duty, into a tailspin of poor discipline,substance abuse, and brutality.Four 1st Platoon soldiers would perpetrate one of the mostheinous war crimes U.S. forces have committed during the IraqWar—the rape of a fourteen-year-old Iraqi girl and the cold-bloodedexecution of her and her family. Three other 1st Platoon soldierswould be overrun at a remote outpost—one killed immediately and twotaken from the scene, their mutilated corpses found days laterbooby-trapped with explosives.Black Heartsis an unflinching account of the epic, tragicdeployment of 1st Platoon. Drawing on hundreds of hours of in-depthinterviews with Black Heart soldiers and first-hand reporting fromthe Triangle of Death, Black Heartsis a timeless story about men incombat and the fragility of character in the savage crucible ofwarfare. But it is also a timely warning of new dangers emerging inthe way American soldiers are led on the battlefields of thetwenty-first century.From the Hardcover edition.

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