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Fallujah [a] (Arabic: ٱلْفَلُّوجَة al-Fallūjah [el.fɐl.ˈluː.dʒɐ]) is a city in Al Anbar Governorate, Iraq.Situated on the Euphrates River, it is located roughly 69 kilometres (43 mi) to the west of the capital city of Baghdad and 50 kilometres (31 mi) from the neighboring city of Ramadi.
New Dawn: The Battles for Fallujah [112] Operation Phantom Fury: The Assault and Capture of Fallujah, Iraq [113] Sunrise Over Fallujah [114] Fallujah Memoirs: A Grunt's Eye View of the Second Battle of Fallujah [115] Ghosts of Fallujah [116] U.S. Marines in Battle: Fallujah, November–December 2004 [117] House to House: An Epic Memoir of War ...
At the age of three, Myers was given over to Florence Dean, the first wife of his biological father George Myers, and her husband Herbert. Florence and Herbert Dean raised him in Harlem, New York City. [3] Herbert Dean was an African-American man and his wife was a German and Native American woman who taught English at the local high school.
Published twenty years later, Myers' book Sunrise Over Fallujah (Scholastic, 2008), which follows a young U.S. soldier's experience during the 2003 invasion of Iraq, is a sequel to Fallen Angels. [4] Five years after that, Myers' book Invasion (Scholastic, 2013), is a prequel which covers D-Day during World War II. [4] [12]
First Fights in Fallujah: Marines During Operation Vigilant Resolve, in Iraq, April 2004. Philadelphia: Casemate. ISBN 9781636243184. No True Glory: A Frontline Account of the Battle for Fallujah, by Bing West (2005) (ISBN 978-0-553-80402-7) Blood Stripes: The Grunt's View of the War in Iraq, by David J. Danelo (2007) (ISBN 978-0-8117-3393-9)
Sunrise Over Fallujah, 2008 novel by American author Walter Dean Myers; Towers Falling, 2016 novel by American author Jewell Parker Rhodes; Truthers, 2017 YA novel by Geoffrey Girard; United States of Banana, 2011 dramatic novel by Giannina Braschi; We All Fall Down, 2007 novel by Eric Walters; Windows on the World, 2003 novel by Frédéric ...
Fallujah is under the control of ISIL. [4] Earlier on Friday, more than 100 people were killed as Iraqi police and tribesmen battled Al-Qaeda–linked militants who took over parts of two cities in Anbar, declaring Fallujah an Islamic state. [5]
Sunrise over Fallujah – Walter Dean Myers, 2008 [39] War Horse – Michael Morpurgo, 1982; When the Horses Ride By: Children in the Times of War – Greenfield, Gilchrist poems and illus., 2006; Glinda of Oz by L. Frank Baum (published posthumously), Reilly & Lee, 1920.