Beaufort

The diary of Liraz Liberti, a twenty-one-year-old member of an Israeli commando team stationed at Beaufort, a Crusader fort in southern Lebanon, during the final winter of Israeli occupation, records the experiences of the soldiers as they deal with near-constant bombardment by Hezbollah and wrestle with their feelings about love, sex, family, war, fear, and death. A first novel. 30,000 first printing.