Pumpkinflowers : a soldier's story / Matti Friedman.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London : Biteback Publishing, 2016.Description: 242 pages : illustration ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 9781785900433 (hbk.):
Subject(s): Summary: 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.
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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.

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