POWERS, KEVIN - 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 Winner of the 2013 Hemingway Foundation PEN Award 2013 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award Winner Winner of the 2012 Guardian First Book Award 2012 National Book Award Finalist for Fiction One of the New York Times Book Review's Top 10 Books of 2012 Product Details ISBN-13: 9780316219365 Publisher: Little, Brown Company Publication date: 9 11 2012 Pages: 230 Product dimensions: 8 30 (w) x 5 70 (h) x 1 00 (d)
