TY  - BOOK
AU  - Powers,Kevin
TI  - The yellow birds: a novel 
SN  - 9780316219365
AV  - PS 3616 P888y 2012
U1  - 813 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - New York
PB  - Little, Brown and Co.
KW  - Soldiers
KW  - United States
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Iraq War, 2003-2011
KW  - War stories
KW  - gsafd
N2  - "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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