The Yellow BirdsThe Yellow Birds
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Book, 2012
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Current format, Book, 2012, 1st ed, Available . Offered in 0 more formats<div><b>Finalist for the National Book Award, <i>The Yellow Birds</i> is the harrowing story of two young soldiers trying to stay alive in Iraq.</b><br><br> "The war tried to kill us in the spring." So begins this powerful account of friendship and loss. <br><br> In Al Tafar, Iraq, twenty-one-year old Private Bartle and eighteen-year-old Private Murphy cling to life as their platoon launches a bloody battle for the city. Bound together since basic training when Bartle makes a promise to bring Murphy safely home, the two have been dropped into a war neither is prepared for. <br><br> In the endless days that follow, the two young soldiers do everything to protect each other from the forces that press in on every side: the insurgents, physical fatigue, and the mental stress that comes from constant danger. As reality begins to blur into a hazy nightmare, Murphy becomes increasingly unmoored from the world around him and Bartle takes actions he could never have imagined. <br><br> With profound emotional insight, especially into the effects of a hidden war on mothers and families at home, <i>The Yellow Birds</i> is a groundbreaking novel that is destined to become a classic.</div>
Two friends, both U.S. soldiers in Iraq, cling to life and each other as a bloody fight to take control of the city of Al Tafar rages around them and they stave off fatigue, mental stress and insurgents. Reprint. 100,000 first printing.
In the midst of a bloody battle in the Iraq War, two soldiers, bound together since basic training, do everything to protect each other from both outside enemies and the internal struggles that come from constant danger.
Two friends, both U.S. soldiers in Iraq, cling to life and each other as a bloody fight to take control of the city of Al Tafar rages around them and they stave off fatigue, mental stress and insurgents. Reprint. 100,000 first printing.
In the midst of a bloody battle in the Iraq War, two soldiers, bound together since basic training, do everything to protect each other from both outside enemies and the internal struggles that come from constant danger.
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