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

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 Tr…

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