Black Hearts: One Platoon's Descent into Madness in Iraq's Triangle of Death [First paperback edition] 9780307450982, 9780307450760, 0307450767

This is an unflinching account of a small group of soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division's fabled 502nd Infantr

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English Pages xxiii, 439 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, map ; 21 cm Year 2010

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Black Hearts: One Platoon's Descent into Madness in Iraq's Triangle of Death [First paperback edition]
 9780307450982, 9780307450760, 0307450767

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.

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