Sunrise Over Fallujah

ISBN-13: 9780439916257 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 320 str.

Walter Dean Myers

Opis

From Walter Dean Myers comes a powerful and timely novel about the heroics and horror of war---a gripping companion to FALLEN ANGELS.

Robin "Birdy" Perry, a new army recruit from Harlem, isn't quite sure why he joined the army, but he's sure where he's headed: Iraq. Birdy and the others in the Civilian Affairs Battalion are supposed to help secure and stabilize the country and successfully interact with the Iraqi people. Officially, the code name for their maneuvers is Operation Iraqi Freedom. But the young men and women in the CA unit have a simpler name for it:

WAR

O autorze

Walter Dean Myers, geb. 1937 in Harlem, zählt zu den wichtigsten schwarzen Jugendbuchautoren Amerikas. Seine Bücher, hauptsächlich Jugendromane und Biografien, wurden mit zahlreichen Preisen ausgezeichnet. Er lebt in Jersey City, New Jersey.