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From the award-winning, critically-acclaimed author of Pumpkinflowers and Spies of No Country, comes the harrowing true story of a group of idealistic young Jewish Palestinians who, with the help of the British forces, parachuted into Nazi-occupied Europe in 1944.

מוצב אחד בלבנון" מאת מתי פרידמן: זה סיפור על חיילים בחזית של מלחמה נשכחת. זה סיפור על הר גבוה בקצה רצועת הביטחון של דרום לבנון. זה סיפור על מוצב צבאי, "דלעת", שבו...

In October, 1973, the poet and singer Leonard Cohen—39 years old, famous, unhappy, and at a creative dead end—traveled to the Sinai desert and inserted himself into the chaos and bloodshed of the Yom Kippur War. Moving around the front with a guitar and a pick-up team of local musicians, Cohen dived headlong into the midst of a global crisis and met hundreds of fighting men and women at the worst moment of their lives. His audiences heard him knowing it might be the last thing they heard, and those who survived never forgot what they heard.

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; flowers 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.