03708cam a2200589 4500 525517452 TxAuBib 20211105120000.0 ||||||s2016||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781616206086 161620608X B013JBH89M Amazon 9c3378ba-e8a5-4345-ac34-f5250d12ca76 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 2356890 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Friedman, Matti. Pumpkinflowers [Libby] : A Soldier's Story of a Forgotten War. Algonquin Books, 2016. War Stories. engaging. personal narrative . retrospective. intense. War on Terror. Page Turner. War Memoir. soldiers. Memoir and Biography. Middle East war. enemy combatants. combat duty. soldier author. 1990s war. codeword for casualties. compelling war narrative. israel military. lebanon hill. powerful memoir. war in lebanon. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 1897kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read, Filesize: 1783kB. Biography & Autobiography. History. Military. Nonfiction. HTML:<p><b>“A book about young men transformed by war, written by a veteran whose dazzling literary gifts gripped my attention from the first page to the last.”</b> —<b><i>The Wall Street Journal</i></b><br /> <b>“Friedman’s sober and striking new memoir . . . [is] on a par with Tim O’Brien’s <i>The Things They Carried</i> — its Israeli analog.”</b> —<b><i>The New York Times Book Review</i></b><br /> 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; <i>flowers</i> 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 ways large and small, and foreshadow the unwinnable conflicts the United States would soon confront in Afghanistan, Iraq, and elsewhere.</p><br /> <i>Pumpkinflowers</i> is a reckoning by one of those young soldiers now grown into a remarkable writer. Part memoir, part reportage, part history, Friedman’s powerful narrative captures the birth of today’s chaotic Middle East and the rise of a twenty-first-century type of war in which there is never a clear victor and media images can be as important as the battle itself.<br /> Raw and beautifully rendered, <i>Pumpkinflowers</i> will take its place among classic war narratives by George Orwell, Philip Caputo, and Tim O’Brien. It is an unflinching look at the way we conduct war today. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-11-04 17:40:22. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=9c3378ba-e8a5-4345-ac34-f5250d12ca76&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=9c3378ba-e8a5-4345-ac34-f5250d12ca76&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=9c3378ba-e8a5-4345-ac34-f5250d12ca76&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)