{"product_id":"black-hearts-book-jim-frederick-9780307450753","title":"Black Hearts","description":"\u003cb\u003eRiveting. . . a testament to a misconceived war, and to the ease with which ordinary men, under certain conditions, can transform into monsters.--\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHit 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFour 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eBlack Hearts\u003c\/i\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eBlack Hearts\u003c\/i\u003e 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.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50004292600081,"sku":"CIN0307450759VG","price":4.86,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50157871366417,"sku":"CIN0307450759G","price":7.65,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":50213863063825,"sku":"CIN0307450759A","price":6.53,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0307450759.jpg?v=1786109777","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/black-hearts-book-jim-frederick-9780307450753","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}