Gerner Joe Avrum (2 results)

Hard cover. Condition: Fine in very good dust jacket. Book Club Edition. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. 431 p. Audience: General/trade. crisp, clean and tight, jacket is near fine with light shelf use.

Hardcover. First edition. First printing [stated]. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. 431, [1] p. Map. Glossary. Index. For twenty-seven years of war and peace, Joe R. Garner served his country as a Special Forces soldier. Code Name: Copperhead details his involvement in over two decades of overt and covert operations. Garner served in Southeast Asia as part of the MACVSOG (Military Assistance Command, Vietnam, Studies and Observation Group), the most highly classified military operation of the war. He secretly armed and trained the Royal Laotian Army against the North Vietnamese and Pathet Lao in 1961 under the command of the legendary Colonel "Bull" Simons. He led top-secret missions behind enemy lines as part of the STRATA (Short Term Reconnaissance and Target Acquisition) operations. Code Name: Copperhead details Garner's experiences-from free-falling with a nuclear device strapped to his back to training Special Forces soldiers to survive interrogation. However, Code Name: Copperhead is more than an account of undercover operations around the globe. Very good in very good dust jacket. DJ has slight wear and soiling.…