![]() ![]() They saw the perfection of a type of warfare that would eventually be exported to Afghanistan and Iraq. ![]() The years in question were pivotal ones, and not just for Israel. Journalistic reporting, part military history. ![]() The hill was called the Pumpkin flowers was the military code word for "casualties." Friedman's visceral narrative recreates harrowing wartime experiences in a work that is part frontlines memoir, part 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. Longlisted for the 2017 BC National Award for Canadian Non-FictionĪ Globe and Mail Pick for Best Canadian Non-Fiction of 2016įrom an award-winning Canadian-Israeli 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. Shortlisted for the 2017 RBC Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction ![]() Shortlisted for the 2016 Hilary Weston Writer's Trust Non-Fiction Prize ![]()
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