Watches Without Time
An American Soldier in Afghanistan
For eight months in 2008, U.S. Army Capt. Matt Zeller served as an embedded combat adviser with Afghan security forces in Ghazni, Afghanistan. Watches Without Time is a compilation of the emails 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 account of the challenges Zeller and his men encountered in Ghazni, and of the complex missions they undertook there. Written in clear and searingly intimate prose, it highlights the many emotion-laden experiences he underwent both during his tour and after his return to the United States.
Matt Zeller, author of Watches Without Time: An American Soldier in Afghanistan, is the CEO and Co-Founder of No One Left Behind, a non-profit dedicated to resettling the Afghan & Iraqi translators who served with the U.S. military at war. Matt is a Captain in the U.S. Army Reserve, a Fellow at the Truman Project for National Security, an Adjunct Fellow at the American Security Project, and a former intelligence analyst.
