Black Hearts: One Platoon's Descent into Madness in Iraq's Triangle of Death
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| Rating | : | 4.48 (788 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00C0MP8RG |
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| Number of Pages | : | 449 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-06-06 |
| Language | : | English |
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forces have committed during the Iraq War - the rape of a 14-year-old Iraqi girl and the cold-blooded execution of her and her family. Drawing on hundreds of hours of in-depth interviews with Black Heart soldiers and first-hand reporting from the Triangle of Death, Black Hearts is a timeless story about men in combat and the fragility of character in the savage crucible of warfare. 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. Black Hearts is an unflinching account of the epic, tragic deployment of 1st Platoon. 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. 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. 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. But it is also a timely warning of new dangers e
M Wolski said An Excellent Book on the Tragedy of Boredom and Fear. Well, I don't think I can really say that I love a book that paints such a bleak picture, but I do greatly appreciate and admire this work. As we now go back into Iraq for a third time, this time covering much of the same ground as before, it is important to realize why US national leadership is so keen to avoid putting US troops directly into combat. Fighting a counterinsurgency type war is exhausting, tedious, and terrifying. The boredom, the combat, and the fear revels some men as cowards, some as heroes, and some as mons. WOW. just another PTSD statistic When I started to read this book I wasn't sure if I would like what i was about to read. But being in bravo during this deployment i had to know what really happened and most importantly, how it happened. I wondered if my memories of the deployment would differ from what was in the book. i was so relieved to see the truth, however horrible it was. i literally couldn't put it down. I think this book will help people to understand what everyone in battalion had to endure throughout the deployment, especially Bco.To extend the . "Gripping, heartbreaking, infuriating" according to Staz. "Black Hearts" is a brilliant description of combat as seen through the eyes of Bravo Company in the darkest days of the Iraq War. It serves as a case study for the negative impacts of poor leadership in today's Army and the general effects of heavy combat on young and strung-out soldiers.Frederick tells his story masterfully, obviously passionate about his subject, but remaining subjective enough to where he is able to describe things in such a manner that the reader is able to make their own decisions. This story is nothin