| Edition |
Unabridged. |
| Description |
1 online resource (1 audio file (720 min.)) : digital |
| Performer |
Read by Corey Snow. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Access |
Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Subject |
Iraq War, 2003-2011 -- Atrocities -- Iraq -- Maḥmūdīyah.
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War crimes -- Iraq -- Maḥmūdīyah.
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Murder -- Iraq -- Maḥmūdīyah.
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Rape -- Iraq -- Maḥmūdīyah.
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Soldiers -- Iraq -- Psychology.
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| Added Author |
Snow, Corey. Narrator.
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| Added Title |
hoopla (Digital media service)
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| ISBN |
9781452692401 (sound recording) (hoopla Audio Book) |
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1452692408 (sound recording) (hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT10830241 |
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