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Sunrise Over Fallujah

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MYERS, Walter Dean
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The incidents described in the book make up a very harrowing and realistic picture of a war that both sides failed to understand. Myers succeeds not only in showing the suffering on both sides but also the bewilderment.

AWARDS:

  • WINNER Publishers’ Weekly Best Book of the Year, Children’s Fiction

HISTORY | WAR

  • Battle for Haditha (2007) investigation of the massacre of 24 men, women and children in Haditha.
  • CHANDRASEKARAN, Rajiv: Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Baghdad's Green Zone (Bloomsbury 2008)
  • TOWNSEND, Sue: Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction (Michael Joseph 2004)