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From a celebrated, award-winning writer comes the true story of a band of young soldiers, the author among them, charged with holding one remote outpost in Lebanon, a task that changed them forever and foreshadowed today’s unwinnable conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere.
It was small hilltop in a small, unnamed war in the late 1990s, but it would send out ripples that continue to emanate worldwide today. The hill was called the Pumpkin;flowers was the military code word for “casualties.” Friedman’s visceral narrative re-creates harrowing wartime experiences in a work that is part frontlines memoir, part journalistic reporting, part military history.
The years in question were pivotal ones, and not just for Israel. They saw the perfection of a type of warfare that would eventually be exported to Afghanistan and Iraq. The new twenty-first-century war is one in which there is never any clear victor, and not enough lives are lost to rally the public against it. Eventually Israel would come to realize that theirs was a losing proposition and pull out—as would the United States in similar conflicts around the globe. But, of course, by then these soldiers—those who had survived—and the country had been wounded in ways large and small.
Raw, powerful, beautifully rendered, the book will take its place among classic war stories such as those by George Orwell, Philip Caputo, and Vasily Grossman.Pumpkinflowers is an unflinching look at the way we conduct war today.
It was small hilltop in a small, unnamed war in the late 1990s, but it would send out ripples that continue to emanate worldwide today. The hill was called the Pumpkin;flowers was the military code word for “casualties.” Friedman’s visceral narrative re-creates harrowing wartime experiences in a work that is part frontlines memoir, part journalistic reporting, part military history.
The years in question were pivotal ones, and not just for Israel. They saw the perfection of a type of warfare that would eventually be exported to Afghanistan and Iraq. The new twenty-first-century war is one in which there is never any clear victor, and not enough lives are lost to rally the public against it. Eventually Israel would come to realize that theirs was a losing proposition and pull out—as would the United States in similar conflicts around the globe. But, of course, by then these soldiers—those who had survived—and the country had been wounded in ways large and small.
Raw, powerful, beautifully rendered, the book will take its place among classic war stories such as those by George Orwell, Philip Caputo, and Vasily Grossman.Pumpkinflowers is an unflinching look at the way we conduct war today.
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