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050	0	0	_aDS79.764.M33 _bF74 2010
082	0	0	_a956.7044 FRE
100	1		_aFrederick, Jim _d, 1971-
245	1	0	_aBlack hearts _b: one platoon's plunge into madness in the triangle of death and the American struggle in Iraq _c/ Jim Frederick
250			_a1st ed
260			_aNew York _b: Harmony Books _c, c2010.
300			_axxiii, 439 p., [8] p. of plates _b: col. ill., map _c; 25 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [417]-429) and index.
520			_aThis 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. 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. 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. Black Hearts 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 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.
610	1	0	_aUnited States _b. Army _b. Airborne Division, 101st
650		0	_aIraq war, 2003 _x--Atrocities _z--Mahmudiyah
650		4	_aWar _x-Crimes
650		0	_aMurder
650		0	_aRape
650		0	_aIraq War, 2003 _x--Psychological aspects
650		0	_aSoldiers _z--Iraq _x--Psychology
942			_cMO
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