Operation Iraqi Freedom, that's the code name. But the young men and women in the military's Civil Affairs Battalion have a simpler name for it: WAR.
In this new novel, Walter Dean Myers looks at a contemporary war with the same power and searing insight he brought to the Vietnam war of his classic, FALLEN ANGELS. He creates memorable characters like the book's narrator, Birdy, a young recruit from Harlem who's questioning why he even enlisted; Marla, a blond, tough-talking, wisecracking gunner; Jonesy, a guitar-playing bluesman who just wants to make it back to Georgia and open a club;
and a whole unit of other young men and women and drops them incountry in Iraq, where they are supposed to help secure and stabilize Iraq and successfully interact with the Iraqi people. The young civil affairs soldiers soon find their definition of "winning" ever more elusive and their good intentions being replaced by terms like "survival" and "despair."
Caught in the crossfire, Myers' richly rendered characters are just beginning to understand the meaning of war in this powerful, realistic novel of our times.
In this new novel, Walter Dean Myers looks at a contemporary war with the same power and searing insight he brought to the Vietnam war of his classic, FALLEN ANGELS. He creates memorable characters like the book's narrator, Birdy, a young recruit from Harlem who's questioning why he even enlisted; Marla, a blond, tough-talking, wisecracking gunner; Jonesy, a guitar-playing bluesman who just wants to make it back to Georgia and open a club;
and a whole unit of other young men and women and drops them incountry in Iraq, where they are supposed to help secure and stabilize Iraq and successfully interact with the Iraqi people. The young civil affairs soldiers soon find their definition of "winning" ever more elusive and their good intentions being replaced by terms like "survival" and "despair."
Caught in the crossfire, Myers' richly rendered characters are just beginning to understand the meaning of war in this powerful, realistic novel of our times.
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Hardback Editions
November 2008 : Hardback
| Title: Sunrise over Fallujah (Thorndike Press Large Print Literacy Bridge Series) Author(s): Walter Dean Myers ISBN: 1-4104-1019-6 / 978-1-4104-1019-1 (USA edition) Publisher: Thorndike Press Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
April 2008 : Hardback
| Title: Sunrise Over Fallujah Author(s): Walter Dean Myers ISBN: 0-439-91624-0 / 978-0-439-91624-0 (USA, UK, or Canada (English speaking) edition) Publisher: Scholastic Press Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
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April 2009 : Mass Market Paperback
| Title: Sunrise Over Fallujah Author(s): Walter Dean Myers ISBN: 0-439-91625-9 / 978-0-439-91625-7 (USA, UK, or Canada (English speaking) edition) Publisher: Scholastic Press Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
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