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." Award-winning writer 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 large and small ways, and foreshadow the un-winnable conflicts the U.S. would soon confront in Afghanistan, Iraq, and elsewhere.
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A war without a name will still take lives. That is the message powerfully conveyed by award-winning author Matti Friedman in his memoir Pumpkinflowers. Friedman takes readers into the trenches of a modern day war, recreating the harrowing experience of a band of young soldiers charged with defending an outpost-called "The Pumpkin."
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