Black Hearts experience of killing Lee had listened to General

Lee had listened to General Longstreet at Gettysburg and withdrawn to higher ground instead of sending Pickett uphill against the entrenched Union line

The lessons of contemporary military practice

Based on months spent with the battalions in Fallujah and hundreds of interviews at every level—senior policymakers

Classified for over half a century for political reasons

Black Hearts experience of killing Lee had listened to General"Riveting. . . a testament to a misconceived war, and to the ease with which ordinary men, under certain conditions, can transform into monsters." New York Times Book Review 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