Black Hearts by Jim Frederick
'Combines elements of In Cold Blood and Black Hawk Down with Apocalypse Now as it builds towards its terrible climax...Extraordinary’ New York Times Iraq’s `Triangle of Death’, 2005. A platoon of young soldiers from a U.S. regiment known as `the Black Heart Brigade’ is deployed to a lawless and hyperviolent area just south of Baghdad. Almost immediately, the attacks begin: every day another roadside bomb, another colleague blown to pieces. As the daily violence chips away, and chips away at their sanity, the thirty-five young men of 1st Platoon, Bravo Company descend into a tailspin of poor discipline, substance abuse, and brutality – with tragic results. Black Hearts is a timeless true story of how modern warfare can make or break a man's character. Told with severe compassion, balanced judgement and the magnetic pace of a thriller, it looks set to become one of the defining books about the Iraq War. `Black Hearts is the obverse of Band of Brothers, a story not of combat unity but of disharmony and disarray’ Chicago Sun-Times `A riveting picture of life outside the wire in Iraq, where “you tell a guy to go across a bridge, and within five minutes he’s dead.”’Kirkus Reviews (starred)
Jim Frederick is a contributing editor at Time magazine. He was previously a Time senior editor in London and, before that,the magazine’s Tokyo bureau chief. He is co-author, with former Army Sergeant Charles Robert Jenkins, of The Reluctant Communist: My Desertion, Court-Martial, and Forty-Year Imprisonment in North Korea. He lives in New York City.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780230752085 |
| ISBN 10 | 023075208X |
| Title | Black Hearts |
| Author | Jim Frederick |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Pan Macmillan |
| Year published | 2010-08-06 |
| Number of pages | 464 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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