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| 100 | 1 | _aFRIEDMAN Matti | |
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_aPumpkinflowers : _ba soldier's story / _cMatti Friedman. |
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_aLondon : _bBiteback Publishing, _c2016. |
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| 300 | _a242 pages : illustration ; 21 cm. | ||
| 520 | _aThe 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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_aLEBANON _x HISTORY _xCIVIL WAR |
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_aLEBANON _x HISTORY _xISRAELI INTERVENTION, 1996. |
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