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Apr 30, 2013 · by Kevin Powers (Author) 2,432. Editors' pick Best Literature & Fiction. See all formats and editions. Finalist for the National Book Award, The Yellow Birds is the harrowing story of two young soldiers trying to stay alive in Iraq. "The war tried to kill us in the spring."
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Sep 6, 2012 · “The Yellow Birds” is brilliantly observed and deeply affecting: at once a freshly imagined story about a soldier’s coming of age, a harrowing tale about the friendship of two young men...
Aug 31, 2012 · The Yellow Birds is a must-read book, not only because it bears witness to this particular war, but also because it ekes out some scant but vital vision of humanity from its shame and ...
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FICTION > “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.
The promise he made, to a young man's mother, that her son would be brought home safely.Written with profound emotional insight, especially into the effects of a hidden war on families at home,...
Sep 11, 2012 · Barnes & Noble. Books-A-Million. Bookshop. Target. Walmart. Description. Finalist for the National Book Award, The Yellow Birds is the harrowing story of two young soldiers trying to stay alive in Iraq. “The war tried to kill us in the spring.” So begins this powerful account of friendship and loss.
