The Yellow Birds - Hardcover

In Al Tafar, Iraq, Privates Bartle and Murphy cling to life as their platoon launches a bloody battle for the city. In the endless days that follow, the two do everything they can to protect each other. Bound together since basic training when their sergeant ordered twenty-one-year-old Bartle to watch over eighteen-year-old Murphy, they have been dropped into a war neither is prepared for. Soon reality blurs into a hazy nightmare. An unforgettable depiction of the psychological impact of war, by a young Iraqi veteran and poet, The Yellow Birds is a modern classic.