Award Name National Book Awards Award category Fiction Finalist for the National Book Award, The Yellow Birds is the harrowing story of two young soldiers trying to stay alive in Iraq.
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 t. "The war tried to kill us in the spring." So begins this powerful account of friendship and loss.
Award Name National Book Awards Award category Fiction Finalist for the National Book Award, The Yellow Birds is the harrowing story of two young soldiers trying to stay alive in Iraq