Black hearts one platoon's descent into madness in Iraq's triangle of death
"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 co...
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New York, NY
Pan Books
2010
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Table of Contents:
- Prelude : March 12, 2006
- "We've got to get south Baghdad under control"
- The Kunk gun
- "This is now the most dangerous place in Iraq"
- Relief in place, transfer of authority
- 1st Platoon at the JS Bridge
- Contact
- Route Sportster and Bradley Bridge
- Communication breakdowns
- The mean squad
- "Soldiers are not stupid"
- Nelson and Casica
- "It is fucking pointless"
- Britt and Lopez
- Leadership shake-up
- Gallagher
- February 1
- Fenlason arrives
- Back to the TCPs
- The Mayor of Mullah Fayyad
- The Janabis
- Twenty-one days
- "We had turned a corner"
- The Alamo
- Dilemma and discovery
- "Remember that murder of that Iraqi family"
- The fight goes on
- "This was life and death stuff"
- Epilogue : The Triangle of Death today and trials at home