Greetings from Afghanistan, Send More Ammo by Benjamin Tupper

Greetings from Afghanistan, Send More Ammo (First Printing Afghanistan Deployment Memoir)

A Citizen-Soldier's Dispatches from a Year Training the Afghan National Army

Bibliographic Specifications

• Title: Greetings from Afghanistan, Send More Ammo: Dispatches from Taliban Country
• Author: Benjamin Tupper
• Publisher: NAL Caliber, New York
• Publication Date: 2010
• ISBN-13: 9780451231437
• Edition Details: First Printing, June 2010. Published by NAL Caliber.
• Binding: Publisher's hardcover boards with illustrated dust jacket.
• Physical Format: Octavo (8vo), standard hardcover, roughly 210 x 145 mm. With black and white photographic plates within the text.
• Language: English

Official Condition Report

• The Book: Good (G)
• Exterior / Boards: The boards beneath the jacket are not visible. The spine of the jacket is clear-wrapped, with creasing and light wear.
• Interior: The text block is clean and tight, with pages white to cream. No foxing or markings are visible on the pages inspected. A faint, illegible ink mark sits at the left edge of the title page area. Includes black and white photographs.
• Provenance: A faint, illegible ink mark at the left edge of the title page. No bookplates or stamps.
• The Dust Jacket: Present. The illustrated jacket is covered in a clear library-style film that is lifting and scuffed along the edges, with white wear speckles along the borders of the jacket art. There are tape patches at the bottom left of the front, at the bottom right of the back and near the top of the back, and a label-like patch at the bottom left of the front. The jacket is protected in a durable archival-type plastic cover.

Synopsis & Historical Value

Published by NAL Caliber in New York in 2010, Greetings from Afghanistan, Send More Ammo: Dispatches from Taliban Country is the memoir of an American soldier who served on an Embedded Training Team, training and leading Afghan National Army troops during a year-long tour.

The book is built from dispatches sent home, many first written as blog entries. It offers a close view of the daily texture of deployment in Afghanistan rather than a conventional account of combat, and it also follows the difficult return to civilian life.

As a first-hand record of the war in Afghanistan in the early twenty-first century, it will interest readers of modern military memoir and collectors of contemporary conflict writing.

Author Profile: Benjamin Tupper

Benjamin Tupper is a captain in the Army National Guard. He first visited Afghanistan in 2004 as a civilian with the group Afghans for Tomorrow, and from 2006 he blogged as an embedded trainer with the Afghan National Army, drawing attention for his open reporting. That work led to a number of commentaries for NPR's Morning Edition.

He received the Bronze Star and the Combat Infantryman Badge for his Afghanistan service. He is also the author of Dudes of War.

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