Name: Black Hearts: One Platoon's Descent Into Madness in Iraq's Triangle of Death (en Inglés)
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Author: Frederick, Jim
ISBN: 9780307450760

portada Black Hearts: One Platoon's Descent Into Madness in Iraq's Triangle of Death (en Inglés)

Black Hearts: One Platoon's Descent Into Madness in Iraq's Triangle of Death (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Jim Frederick

Editorial

Crown Publishing Group (NY)

Año

2011

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

439

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

20.3 x 13.0 x 3.3 cm

Peso

0.36 kg.

ISBN13

9780307450760

N° edición

33338th

Categorías

Irak/iraq
Estados unidos de américa
Siglo xxi, primera mitad: c. 2000-c. 2050
Historia militar: conflictos posteriores a la segunda guerra mundial

Black Hearts: One Platoon's Descent Into Madness in Iraq's Triangle of Death (en Inglés)

Jim Frederick (Autor) · Crown Publishing Group (NY) · Tapa Blanda

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Reseña del libro "Black Hearts: One Platoon's Descent Into Madness in Iraq's Triangle of Death (en Inglés)"

"Riveting. . . a testament to a misconceived war, and to the ease with which ordinary men, under certain conditions, can transform into monsters."--New York Times Book Review 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. 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.