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100	1		_aPowers, Kevin.
245	1	4	_aThe yellow birds : _ba novel / _cKevin Powers.
250			_a1st ed.
260			_aNew York : _bLittle, Brown and Co., _c2012.
300			_a226 p. ; _c22 cm.
520			_a"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.
650		0	_aSoldiers _zUnited States _vFiction.
650		0	_aIraq War, 2003-2011 _vFiction.
655		7	_aWar stories. _2gsafd
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