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The Yellow Birds

Kevin Powers

Hardcover | Pages: 226 pages

Rating: 3.75 | 22875 Users | 3238 Reviews

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Original Title:	The Yellow Birds
ISBN:	0316219363 (ISBN13: 9780316219365)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Sterling, Bartle, Murph
Setting:	Iraq
Literary Awards:	New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award Nominee (2013), Guardian First Book Award (2012), PEN/Hemingway Foundation Award (2013), Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Fiction (2013), Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction (2013) Dayton Literary Peace Prize Nominee for Fiction (2013), The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize Nominee (2012), Prix littéraire étranger Le Monde (2013), National Book Award Finalist for Fiction (2012)

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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 about the costs of war that is destined to become a classic. "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. With profound emotional insight, especially into the effects of a hidden war on mothers and families at home, The Yellow Birds a groundbreaking novel about the costs of war that is destined to become a classic.

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Title	:	The Yellow Birds
Author	:	Kevin Powers
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 226 pages
Published	:	September 6th 2012 by Little, Brown and Company
Categories	:	Fiction. War. Historical. Historical Fiction. Military Fiction. Literary Fiction. Contemporary. Literature

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The Yellow Birds: Kevin Powers' Novel of Young Men at WarWhy the title, The Yellow Birds? Kevin Powers took it from a traditional marching cadence that's been around a long time. A yellow birdwith a yellow billwas sitting onmy window sillI lured him in with a piece of bread and then I smashed his f**king head. Yellow birds in stepI can add little to what my friend Jeff Keeten has said about this powerful and terrible beauty of a book. While I read it first, and recommended it to him, you won't

My dad was a cold warrior, serving in the Air Force from before my birth to well into my adult years. Part of that time was spent serving in Vietnam and Thailand (and, yes, there was combat in Thailand at the time) where he was a radio operator who also served on base defense whenever his base was attacked. Apparently, this happened a few times in his stay in Southeast Asia. As a boy, being a boy, I asked my Dad "Dad, did you ever get a purple heart?". He responded "No way! I kept my ass down!

Ma, I am enlisting, said the BoyButwhy? You are so young?, said the Mother worried and perplexed.I am 18, said the boy, quite capable of doing what I want to do, he added with emphasis and a certain vehemence in his tone.But.why? I dont understand this sudden decision, said the mother againI need to be a man and what better way to become one than to go fight for my country, said the boy in a tone that brooked no argument.But you are a man to me.. isnt that enough?, asked the mother not wanting



The inundated reports of wars and turmoil in the middle-east have created blind eyes and death ears to many as the death toll ever increases and people have lost count on the fallen.Death seems to not be noticed as much as it should, except that is, for those that have lost loved ones of kin, love, and friendship in these wars plaguing the earth. This story could possibly win the attention of those guilty of this and make the dead count for those readers in the alien region of understanding this

The Yellow Birds is a fictionalised account of a young American soldiers experiences while on a tour of duty in Iraq in 2004. That this book has been published and is getting a wide readership is important because any and every account, in whatever medium, which underlines the absurdity of war is needed urgently until the sending out of young men to fight senseless wars becomes a thing of the past.  Powers was 17 when he joined the army and what I'd really like to have read is his diary from

4.75I'm kind of sorry but I'm probably not going to write an english review, because...I can't. I need to talk about it in my native language to try to write something that does (hopefully) make sense."The war tried to kill us in the spring. As grass greened the plains of Nineveh and the weather warmed, we patrolled the low-slung hills beyond the cities and towns. We moved over them and through the tall grass on faith, kneading paths into the windswept growth like pioneers. While we slept, the