02213cim a2200325 i 4500 547478205 TxAuBib 20220131120000.0 g 080505s2008||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781436106849 1436106842 TxAuBib rda Myers, Walter Dean, 1937-2014. Sunrise over Fallujah [Audio]. Prince Frederic, MD : recorded Books, 2008. 7 audio discs (7 hr., 30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. spw rdacontent s rdamedia sg rdacarrier 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. Narrated by J. D. Jackson. Robin Perry, from Harlem, is sent to Iraq in 2003 as a member of the Civilian Affairs Battaliion, and his time there profoundly changes him. 20220131. Iraq War, 2003-2011 Fiction. African Americans Fiction. War fiction. Findaway World, LLC. Playaway Digital Audio.