Pumpkinflowers: A Soldier's Story of a Forgotten War

Pumpkinflowers: A Soldier's Story of a Forgotten War

â€œA book about young men transformed by war, written by a veteran whose dazzling literary gifts gripped my attention from the first page to the last.â€ â€”The Wall Street Journalâ€œFriedmanâ€™s sober and striking new memoir . . . [is] on a par with Tim Oâ€™Brienâ€™s The Things They Carried -- its Israeli analog.â€ â€”The New York Times Book Review 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 â€œcasualties.â€ 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.Pumpkinflowers is a reckoning by one of those young soldiers now grown into a remarkable writer. Part memoir, part reportage, part history, Friedmanâ€™s powerful narrative captures the birth of todayâ€™s chaotic Middle East and the rise of a twenty-first-century type of war in which there is never a clear victor and media images can be as important as the battle itself. Raw and beautifully rendered, Pumpkinflowers will take its place among classic war narratives by George Orwell, Philip Caputo, and Tim Oâ€™Brien. It is an unflinching look at the way we conduct war today.
Country USA
Brand Algonquin Books
Manufacturer Algonquin Books
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber part_1616206918
ReleaseDate 2017-04-18
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781616206918

Country	USA
Brand	Algonquin Books
Manufacturer	Algonquin Books
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	part_1616206918
ReleaseDate	2017-04-18
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781616206918

Pumpkinflowers: A Soldier's Story of a Forgotten War

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