Pumpkinflowers: A Soldier's Story of a Forgotten War

Pumpkinflowers is a powerful and moving account of one young soldier's experience in a small, unnamed war in the late 1990s.

Award-winning writer Matti Friedman re-creates the harrowing experience of a band of young Israeli soldiers charged with holding a remote outpost, a task that would change them forever and foreshadow the unwinnable conflicts the United States would soon confront in Afghanistan, Iraq, and elsewhere.

This is a reckoning by one of those young soldiers now grown into a remarkable writer, part memoir, part reportage, part history.

Raw and beautifully rendered, Pumpkinflowers 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.