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Scholastic Press
April 2008
On Sale: April 15, 2008
304 pages
ISBN: 0439916240
EAN: 9780439916240
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Non-Fiction
Operation Iraqi Freedom, that's the code name. But the
young men and women in the military's Civil Affairs
Battalion have a simpler name for it: WAR. In this new novel, Walter Dean Myers looks at a
contemporary war with the same power and searing insight he
brought to the Vietnam war of his classic, FALLEN ANGELS.
He creates memorable characters like the book's narrator,
Birdy, a young recruit from Harlem who's questioning why he
even enlisted; Marla, a blond, tough-talking, wisecracking
gunner; Jonesy, a guitar-playing bluesman who just wants to
make it back to Georgia and open a club;
and a whole unit of other young men and women and drops
them incountry in Iraq, where they are supposed to help
secure and stabilize Iraq and successfully interact with
the Iraqi people. The young civil affairs soldiers soon
find their definition of "winning" ever more elusive and
their good intentions being replaced by terms
like "survival" and "despair."
Caught in the crossfire, Myers' richly rendered characters
are just beginning to understand the meaning of war in this
powerful, realistic novel of our times.
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