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The war tried to kill us in the spring," begins this breathtaking 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. 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. Bound together since basic training when their tough-as-nails Sergeant ordered Bartle to watch over Murphy, the two have been dropped into a war neither is prepared for. As reality begins to blur into a hazy nightmare, Murphy becomes increasingly unmoored from the world around him and Bartle takes impossible actions.
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The Yellow Birds, Kevin Powers
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- Released
- 2012
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- Title
- The Yellow Birds
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Kevin Powers
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Released
- 2012
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 226
- ISBN10
- 1444765434
- ISBN13
- 9781444765434
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Historical Fiction, Family, Contemporary Fiction, Friendship, Military Fiction, Wars, Life, Loss, Afghanistan, Iraq
- First published
- 2012
- Original title
- The Yellow Birds
- Rating
- 3.75 out of 5
- Description
- The war tried to kill us in the spring," begins this breathtaking 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. 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. Bound together since basic training when their tough-as-nails Sergeant ordered Bartle to watch over Murphy, the two have been dropped into a war neither is prepared for. As reality begins to blur into a hazy nightmare, Murphy becomes increasingly unmoored from the world around him and Bartle takes impossible actions.