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Captain Benjamin Tupper takes listeners inside the intricacies of the war in Afghanistan, opening up a unique and multifaceted view of both Afghan culture and the daily life of an American soldier.

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Captain Benjamin Tupper spent a year in Afghanistan in an Embedded Training Team, tasked with training, leading in combat, and mentoring the Afghan Army to victory against the brutal Taliban. Writing and recording from a remote outpost, Tupper's dispatches were posted on the blog The Sandbox and broadcast on NPR, bringing vivid snapshots of America's longest ongoing war to a wide audience back home.

Here, he takes us inside the intricacies of the war, opening up a unique and multifaceted view of both Afghan culture and the daily life of an American soldier. From the rush of gunfire to surreal, euphoric moments of cross-cultural understanding, this emotional and thought-provoking narrative is rich with humor, eloquence, and contradiction. Deeply personal and darkly funny, Tupper illuminates the challenges of the war, vividly bringing to life both the mundane and the extraordinary and seeking a way forward.

"A scattershot view of the minutia of being deployed in Afghanistan rather than the munitions." ---Publishers Weekly

"Tupper is a true grunt. He has that crazy, infectious sense of humor based on the absurd...and tells the [listener] straight up how it is to be a grunt adviser in the zany land of Afghanistan." ---Bing West, author of The Village

"Raw, direct, and powerful.... This work is vitally important." ---Ken Stern, former CEO of National Public Radio

"A penetrating look at life deep inside Afghanistan and way outside the wire." ---Gary Trudeau, creator of Doonesbury

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Dispatches from Taliban Country

Author Benjamin Tupper

Narrated by Johnny Heller

Publication date Jun 22, 2010

Running time 5 hrs

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