Black Hearts: One Platoon's Descent Into Madness in Iraq's Triangle of Death

by Jim Frederick

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0307450767
• ISBN13: 9780307450760
• Release Date: February 2011
• Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.1" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Like new...not so much

This review is about the order experience rather than the contents of the book itself. I ordered this book in like new condition, but received a battered ex-library edition. If they'd been honest about the condition of the book, I wouldn't have ordered it.