{"product_id":"book-bfb6","title":"Black Hearts","description":"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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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":"Tantor","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49388214059312,"sku":"BDbfb6","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio CD","offer_id":49388214092080,"sku":"ZEbfb6","price":49.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio MP3-CD","offer_id":49388214124848,"sku":"ZMbfb6","price":45.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio CD [40]","offer_id":49388214419760,"sku":"40bfb6","price":44.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/bfb6-Square-cover.jpg?v=1778983554","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-bfb6","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}