Screen LibraryPumpkinflowers : a soldier's story /
It was just one small hilltop in a small, unnamed war in the late 1990s, but it would send out ripples that are still felt worldwide today. The hill, in Lebanon, was called the Pumpkin; 'flowers' was the military code word for 'casualties.' Matti Friedman re-creates the harrowing...
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Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill,
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| Publisher Address: | Chapel Hill, North Carolina : |
| Publication Dates: | 2016. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: |
It was just one small hilltop in a small, unnamed war in the late 1990s, but it would send out ripples that are still felt worldwide today. The hill, in Lebanon, was called the Pumpkin; 'flowers' was the military code word for 'casualties.' Matti Friedman re-creates the harrowing experience of a band of young Israeli soldiers charged with holding this remote outpost, a task that would change them forever, wound the country in ways large and small, and foreshadow the unwinnable conflicts the United States would soon confront in Afghanistan, Iraq, and elsewhere. |
| Carrier Form: | x, 242 pages : illustration, map ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [227]-242). |
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9781616204587 (hardback) : 1616204583 (hardback) |
| Index Number: | DS87 |
| CLC: | K378.52 |
| Call Number: | K378.52/F911 |