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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
Published
New York : Harmony Books, [2010]
Copyright Date
©2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Description
xxiii, 439 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, map ; 25 cm

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Contents
Prelude: March 12, 2006 -- Summer 2005 -- 1. "We've Got to Get South Baghdad Under Control" -- 2. The Kunk Gun -- October 2005 -- 3. "This Is Now the Most Dangerous Place in Iraq" -- 4. Relief in Place, Transfer of Authority -- 5. 1st Platoon at the JS Bridge -- 6. Contact -- November 2005 -- 7. Route Sportster and Bradley Bridge -- 8. Communication Breakdowns -- 9. The Mean Squad -- 10. "Soldiers Are Not Stupid" -- December 2005 -- 11. Nelson and Casica -- 12. "It Is Fucking Pointless" -- 13. Britt and Lopez -- 14. Leadership Shake-up -- January 2006 -- 15. Gallagher -- February 2006 -- 16. February 1 -- 17. Fenlason Arrives -- March 2006 -- 18. Back to the TCPs -- 19. The Mayor of Mullah Fayyad -- 20. The Janabis -- 21. Twenty-one Days -- April-June 2006 -- 22. "We Had Turned a Corner" -- 23. The Alamo -- 24. Dilemma and Discovery -- 25. "Remember That Murder of That Iraqi Family?" -- July-September 2006 -- 26. The Fight Goes On -- 27. "This Was Life and Death Stuff" -- Epilogue: The Triangle of Death Today and Trials at Home -- List of Characters -- Military Units and Ranks.
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.
Frederick presents the gripping true story of The Black Hearts platoon and the widespread breakdown of discipline that results in depression, drinking, and horrific brutality that culminates with the rape of a 14-year-old Iraqi girl and the cold-blooded execution of her family.
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ISBN
9780307450753
0307450759
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages [417]-429) and index.
Endowment Note
Elizabeth Epp Taft Library Endowment
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