PumpkinflowersA Soldier's Story
Author: Matti Friedman
Publisher: Algonquin Books
ISBN: 978-1-61620-458-7
Published: May 3, 2016
genre: Biographies, Military Memoirs
256 pages
format available: hardcover, ebook
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Description:
It was just one small hilltop in a small, unnamed war in the late 1990s, but it would send out ripples that are still felt worldwide today. The hill, in Lebanon, was called the Pumpkin; flowers was the military code word for “casualties.” Award-winning writer Matti Friedman re-creates the harrowing experience of a band of young Israeli soldiers charged with holding this remote outpost, a task that would change them forever, wound the country in ways large and small, and foreshadow the unwinnable conflicts the United States would soon confront in Afghanistan, Iraq, and elsewhere.
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