num_pages: 226
description: 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.
language: English
title: The Yellow Birds
publisher: Little, Brown and Company