Pumpkinflowers

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Matti Friedman s haunting war memoir reminds one of Michael Herr s unforgettable Vietnam memoir, Dispatches. It, too, is destined to become a classic text on the absurdities of war Evocative, emotionally wrenching, and yet clear eyed and dispassionate, Pumpkinflowers is a stunning achievement Kai Bird, Pulitzer Prize winning biographer and New York Times bestselling author of The Good SpyIt was one small hilltop in a small, unnamed war in the late 1990s, but it would send out ripples 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 soldiers the author among them charged with holding this remote outpost, a task that changed them forever and foreshadowed the unwinnable conflicts the United States would soon confront in Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere.Part memoir, part reportage, part military history, this 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 Raw and beautifully rendered, Pumpkinflowers will take its place among classic war narratives by George Orwell, Philip Caputo, and Vasily Grossman It is an unflinching look at the way we conduct war today. Download Pumpkinflowers – kino-fada.fr It was one small hilltop in a small, unnamed war in the late 1990s, but it would send out ripples 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 soldiers the author among them charged with holding this remote outpost, a task that changed them forever and foreshadowed the unwinnable conflicts the United States would soon confr It was one small hilltop in a small, unnamed war in the late 1990s, but it would send out ripples 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 soldiers the author among them charged with holding this remote outpost, a task that changed them forever and foreshadowed the unwinnable conflicts the United States would soon confront in Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere The idea was not death before dishonor, no surrender, or anything like that but rather let s get through this Pumpkinflowers brought out the most physical and emotional reactions I ve had ever since I started reading books I was so awash in feelings that I tried to desperately shut down, but with every few pages, especially in part one, my eyes welled with tears that would just fall with the blink of an eye.The traumatic war events exist in such a bri... Pumpkinflowers A Soldier s Story of a Forgotten War by Matti Friedman is an account of the 1990s Israeli occupation of Lebanon Friedman is an Israeli Canadian journalist and author In 1995, he made aliyah to Israel and now he lives in Jerusalem I picked this book up thinking it was a Vietnam memoir The marketing blurb referenced Vietnam and the cover reminded me of a Vietnam scene I was wrong in fact, however, very close in spirit It seems that there are many similarities in the occupatio Pumpkinflowers A Soldier s Story of a Forgotten War by Matti Friedman is an account of the 1990s Israeli occupation of Lebanon Friedman is an Israeli Canadian journalist and author In 1995, he made aliyah to Israel and now he lives in Jerusalem I picked this book up thinking it was a Vietnam memoir The marketing blurb referenced Vietnam and the cover reminded me of a Vietnam scene I was wrong in fact, however, very close in spirit It seems that there are many similarities in the occupation of southern Lebanon and the border region and America s involvement in Vietnam The youth of Israel would have preferred not to be in a firefight much like the Americans decades before However, they went when called and took part in a military action they knew was essentially fruitless The book is divide...Slowly but steadily, I made my way through Matti Friedman s stunning new book PUMPKINFLOWERS is a relatively slender volume, and many of its chapters are quite short But it s powerful and intense, and I read it carefully and in small doses I must add that as I read, I was aware of an additional layer of meaning because my reading time coincided with Israel s Memorial Day and Independence Day PUMPKINFLOWERS has already been receiving a lot of excellent attention See, for example, these revi Slowly but steadily, I made my way through Matti Friedman s stunning new book PUMPKINFLOWERS is a relatively slender volume, and many of its chapters are quite short But it s powerful and intense, and I read it carefully and in small doses I must add that as I read, I was aware of an additional layer of meaning because my reading time coincided with Israel s Memorial Day and Independence Day PUMPKINFLOWERS has already been receiving a lot of excellent attention See, for example, these reviews ...An interesting personal account as well as of some other Israeli soldiers who services in the Pumpkin lookout in Lebanon Although I served at the time in one of the safe bases, and I can t even imagine how it was for the soldiers up there, the time and atmosphere in Israel re...Readiness with Dawn Things were so quiet that I believe I could hear the hill talking to me I m not sure I could understand then what it was saying But now I believe it was What are you doing here And also Why don t you go home That hill is still speaking to me years later Its voice, to my surprise, has not diminished with the passage of time but has grown louder anddistinct.I saw this book compared to The Things They Carried so I read them fairly close together and while this di Readiness with Dawn Things were so quiet that I believe I could hear the hill talking to me I m not sure I could understand then what it was saying But ...This book is about the lives of young people who finished high school and then found themselves in a war in a forgotten little corner of a forgotten little war, but one that has nonetheless reverberated in our lives and in the life of our country and the world since it ended one night in the first spri...Pumpkin was the name of an Israeli combat outpost on a hill in Southern Lebanon in the 1990 s Flowers is code for casualties It joins the list of classic books about war and how war is etched in individual and national memory It s set in four parts in Part One we meet Avi a young conscript doing his part on the hill in the mid 1990 s Part Two involves the mothers of the soldiers serving in the Israeli Defense Forces deployed to Lebanon in the Security Zone Part Three is the author s involv Pumpkin was the name of an Israeli combat outpost on a hill in Southern...Like an expert twist of the knife, Matti Friedman s words cut and scar.Matti Friedman, with other Israeli soldiers, manned an outpost in Lebanon in 1996 A fellow soldier, Avi, along with others, died while assigned to the defense of the Pumpkin Friedman survived His 2002 visit to Lebanon and the Pumpkin while masquerading as a Canadian gives him a new perspective on the battles that took place there His understanding of Israeli hopes for peace h...Outstanding Riveting and tragic His writing is almost dreamlike, and his exploration of the psychological toll of the conflict was truly enlightening Highly recommend this book.

Pumpkinflowers
  • 22 March 2017
  • Hardcover
  • 256 pages
  • 1616204583
  • Matti Friedman
  • Pumpkinflowers