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The yellow birds a novel

In the midst of a bloody battle in the Iraq War, two soldiers, bound together since basic training, do everything to protect each other from both outside enemies and the internal struggles that come from constant danger.

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Main Author:	Powers, Kevin
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2012.
Edition:	1st ed.
Subjects:	Soldiers > United States > Fiction. Iraq War, 2003-2011 > Fiction. War stories > Iraq.
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Summary:	In the midst of a bloody battle in the Iraq War, two soldiers, bound together since basic training, do everything to protect each other from both outside enemies and the internal struggles that come from constant danger.
Physical Description:	230 p. ; 22 cm.
ISBN:	9780316219365
Author Notes:	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.