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Author and Veteran Kevin Powers Reflects on Memorial Day

From Erich Maria Remarque’s “All Quiet on the Western Front” to Tim O’Brien’s “The Things They Carried,” the combat novel takes its readers right into the action, into the horrors of war. With his recent novel “The Yellow Birds,” author and veteran Kevin Powers does for Iraq what Remarque did for World War I and […]

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Iraq in Retrospect: Kevin Powers’ Novel ‘The Yellow Birds’

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