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Pumpkinflowers: A Soldier's Story of a Forgotten War
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Synopsis : ?Matti Friedman?s haunting war memoir reminds one of Michael Herr?s unforgettable Vietnam memoir, Dispatches. It, too, is destined to become a classic text on the absurdities of war. Evocative, emotionally wrenching, and yet clear-eyed and dispassionate, Pumpkinflowers is a stunning achievement.? ?Kai Bird, Pulitzer Prize?winning biographer and New York Times bestselling author of The Good SpyIt was one small hilltop in a small, unnamed war in the late 1990s, but it would send out ripples still felt worldwide today. The hill, in Lebanon, was called the Pumpkin; flowers was the military code word for ?casualties.? Award-winning writer Matti Friedman re-creates the harrowing experience of a band of young soldiers--the author among them--charged with holding this remote outpost, a task that changed them forever and foreshadowed the unwinnable conflicts the United States would soon confront in Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere.Part memoir, part reportage, part military history, this
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Author : Matti Friedman
Pages : 256 pages
Publisher : Algonquin Books
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ISBN-10 : 1616204583
ISBN-13 : 9781616204587