Pumpkinflowers: A Soldier's Story of a Forgotten War AUTH-8446570 MN-a cruel irony at play

MN-a cruel irony at play in this story about the death of a young woman's American dream of equality and fulfillment

With an appetite fit for the King of the Fen Wolves

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I knew his book would be honest-and it is

Shaw's expertise as a sailor and his in-depth knowledge of the Civil War make him ideally suited to tell the story of Confederate raider Charles W

Pumpkinflowers: A Soldier's Story of a Forgotten War AUTH-8446570 MN-a cruel irony at play"A book about young men transformed by war, written by a veteran whose dazzling literary gifts gripped my attention from the first page to the last." The Wall Street Journal "Friedman's sober and striking new memoir . . . is] on a par with Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried its Israeli analog." The New York Times Book Review 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