PAPERBACK EDITION<\/p>\n
One Platoon’s Descent into Madness in Iraq’s Triangle of Death<\/b><\/p>\n
This is the story 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, a veritable meat grinder just south of Baghdad, the Black Hearts found themselves in arguably the country’s most dangerous location at its most dangerous time.<\/p>\n
Hit by near-daily mortars, gunfire, and roadside bomb attacks, suffering from a particularly heavy death toll, and enduring a chronic breakdown in leadership, members of one Black Heart platoon – 1st Platoon, Bravo Company, 1st Battalion – descended, over their year-long tour of duty, into a tailspin of poor discipline, substance abuse, and brutality.<\/p>\n
Four 1st Platoon soldiers would perpetrate one of the most heinous war crimes U.S. forces have committed during the Iraq War – the rape of a fourteen-year-old Iraqi girl and the cold-blooded execution of her and her family. Three other 1st Platoon soldiers would be overrun at a remote outpost – one killed immediately and two taken from the scene, their mutilated corpses found days later booby-trapped with explosives.<\/p>\n
Black Hearts<\/i> is an unflinching account of the epic, tragic deployment of 1st Platoon. Drawing on hundreds of hours of in-depth interviews with Black Heart soldiers and first-hand reporting from the Triangle of Death, Black Hearts<\/i> is a timeless story about men in combat and the fragility of character in the savage crucible of warfare. But it is also a timely warning of new dangers emerging in the way American soldiers are led on the battlefields of the twenty-first century.<\/p>\n
About the Author<\/b>
\nJim Frederick is a contributing editor at Time<\/i> magazine. He was previously a Time<\/i> senior editor in London and, before that, the magazine’s Tokyo bureau chief. He is coauthor, with former Army Sergeant Charles Robert Jenkins, of The Reluctant Communist: My Desertion, Court-Martial, and Forty-Year Imprisonment in North Korea<\/i>. He lives in New York City.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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