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The Yellow Birds: A Novel
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The Yellow Birds: A Novel Paperback - 2013

by Powers, Kevin

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A novel written by a veteran of the war in Iraq, "The Yellow Birds" is the harrowing story of two young soldiers trying to stay alive. In Iraq, 21-year old Private Bartle and 18-year-old Private Murphy cling to life as their platoon launches a bloody battle for the city. The two have been dropped into a war neither is prepared for.

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  • Title The Yellow Birds: A Novel
  • Author Powers, Kevin
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: Repri
  • Condition New
  • Pages 256
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Back Bay Books, New York
  • Date 2013-04-29
  • Bookseller's Inventory # BB95
  • ISBN 9780316219341 / 0316219347
  • Weight 0.5 lbs (0.23 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.2 x 5.5 x 0.8 in (20.83 x 13.97 x 2.03 cm)
  • Reading level 1010
  • Library of Congress subjects Soldiers - United States, Iraq War, 2003-2011
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2012533189
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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  • New York Times Book Review, 05/05/2013, Page 28

About the author

Kevin Powers is the author of The Yellow Birds, which won the PEN/Hemingway Award, the Guardian First Book Award, and was a National Book Award Finalist, as well as Letter Composed During a Lull in the Fighting, a collection of poetry. He was born and raised in Richmond, Virginia, graduated from Virginia Commonwealth University, and holds an MFA from the University of Texas at Austin, where he was a Michener Fellow in Poetry. He served in the US Army in 2004 and 2005 in Iraq, where he was deployed as a machine gunner in Mosul and Tal Afar.