The yellow birds / Kevin Powers.
Publication details: London : Sceptre, 2012.Description: 226 p. ; 22 cmISBN:- 1444756133
- 9781444756135
- 9781444756128 (hbk.)
- 813.6 23
- Winner of the Guardian First Book Award.
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
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Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Fiction | POW | Available | 056909 |
First published: New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2012.
"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.
Winner of the Guardian First Book Award.