TY  - BOOK
AU  - FRIEDMAN Matti
TI  - Pumpkinflowers: a soldier's story 
SN  - 9781785900433 (hbk.):
PY  - 2016///
CY  - London
PB  - Biteback Publishing
KW  - LEBANON
KW  -  HISTORY
KW  - CIVIL WAR
KW  - ISRAELI INTERVENTION, 1996
N2  - 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
ER  -