FRIEDMAN Matti <br/><br/>
Pumpkinflowers :  a soldier's story / 
Matti Friedman. 
 - London :  Biteback Publishing,  2016. 
 - 242 pages : illustration ; 21 cm. 
<br/><br/> The hill, in Lebanon, was called the Pumpkin; 'flowers' was the military code word for casualties. Matti Friedman re-creates the experiences of a band of young men, plucked by conscription from westernised boyhoods, and charged with holding this remote outpost - a pointless task that changed them forever and foreshadowed the unwinnable conflicts the United States would soon confront in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781785900433 (hbk.):  12.99GBP 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>LEBANON -- HISTORY --CIVIL WAR<br/>LEBANON -- HISTORY --ISRAELI INTERVENTION, 1996.