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Little, Brown and Company
September 2012
On Sale: September 11, 2012
240 pages
ISBN: 0316219363
EAN: 9780316219365
Kindle: B0076DEOLA
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A novel written by a veteran of the war in Iraq, The Yellow
Birds is the harrowing story of two young soldiers trying to
stay alive. "The war tried to kill us in the spring." So begins this
powerful account of friendship and loss. 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. 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. With profound emotional insight, especially into the effects
of a hidden war on mothers and families at home, The Yellow
Birds is a groundbreaking novel that is destined to become a
classic.
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