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Watches Without Time

An American Soldier in Afghanistan

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Watches Without Time

By: Matt Zeller
Narrated by: Fred Berman
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For eight months in 2008, US Army Capt. Matt Zeller served as an embedded combat adviser with the Afghan security forces in Ghazni, Afghanistan. Watches Without Time is a compilation of the emails and letters he sent home to family and friends during that period - so that, as he writes in the preface, "should anything have ever happened to me, they would know what I went through." Watches Without Time gives a granular and gripping account of the tough challenges that Zeller and his men encountered in Ghazni and of the very complex missions they accomplished there. Written in clear and searingly intimate prose, it also highlights the many trials and emotion-laden experiences he underwent throughout his tour and after returning to the United States. Zeller takes his readers with him on an emotional journey that will lead many to share the anger he felt at the many ways in which he saw the war being mismanaged while stirring increased admiration for the soldiers tasked with conducting that war on the very difficult terrain of Afghanistan. Watches Without Time has a foreword by former assistant secretary of state for Near East affairs Amb. Edward S. ("Ned") Walker. It gives the listener a realistic, heartwarming, and terrifying look at the challenges the US military faced in Afghanistan and the strain the war has placed on many US soldiers.

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The author reaches for a mix of flowery, poetic war noir mixed with a remembrance of his experience in Afghanistan but tends to come across as self-agrandizing at times...his repeated chastisement of "Fobbits" after relating his one or two actual fire fights early in his tour is annoying, especially since he seemed to have been a staff officer rather than the "front line troop" he identifies as. He complains bitterly about his run-ins with typical military burocracy and delights in enlightening the reader with his take on how it should be done. Not a horrible book, with some entertainment value, but compared to the likes of Nick Brokhausen and Darren Shadix, he gets a bit stuffy...probably not an officer I would have liked to serve under or share a fox hole with.

Interesting but kind of whiny

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What a great listen, author was outstanding in his performance and this is going on favorites list and will listen again and again!

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