Pumpkinflowers - A soldier's story (Hardcover)

It was just one remote hilltop in an unnamed war in the late 1990s, but it would send out ripples that are still felt today, foreshadowing the chaos of 21stcentury conflicts in the Middle East. The hill, in Lebanon, was called the Pumpkin; 'flowers' was the military code word for casualties.Part memoir, part reportage and part haunting elegy for lost youth, award-winning writer Matti Friedman's powerful account follows the band of young soldiers - the author among them - conscripted out of high school into holding this remote outpost, and explores how the task would change them forever. Pumpkinflowers is a lyrical yet devastating insight into the day-to-day realities of war, and a powerful coming-of-age narrative. Raw and beautifully rendered, this essential chronicle casts an unfl inching look at the nature of modern warfare, in which there is never a clear victor and innocence is not all that is lost.

General

Imprint:	Biteback Publishing
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	April 2016
Authors:	Matti Friedman
Dimensions:	206 x 138 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	242
ISBN-13:	978-1-78590-043-3
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > General Books > Humanities > History > Asian / Middle Eastern history > General Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Essays, journals, letters & other prose works > From 1900 > Reportage & collected journalism Books > History > Asian / Middle Eastern history > General Books > Biography > General Promotions
LSN:	1-78590-043-9
Barcode:	9781785900433

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