Code Name Copperhead True Life by Garner Joe (15 results)

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Sergeant Major Joe R. Garner served in the jungles of Vietnam, Laos and Central America as one of the original Green Berets. In this text, he discloses some of his missions during over 21 years of service, including being the first man to free-fall with a nuclear device strapped to his back.…

Hardback. Condition: Good. Sergeant Major Joe R. Garner served in the jungles of Vietnam, Laos and Central America as one of the original Green Berets. In this text, he discloses some of his missions during over 21 years of service, including being the first man to free-fall with a nuclear device strapped to his back.…

Hardback. Condition: Good. Sergeant Major Joe R. Garner served in the jungles of Vietnam, Laos and Central America as one of the original Green Berets. In this text, he discloses some of his missions during over 21 years of service, including being the first man to free-fall with a nuclear device strapped to his back.…

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Sergeant Major Joe R. Garner served in the jungles of Vietnam, Laos and Central America as one of the original Green Berets. In this text, he discloses some of his missions during over 21 years of service, including being the first man to free-fall with a nuclear device strapped to his back.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. Small chip in upper back edge of dust jacket. A bit of foxing on book cover spine and top and bottom edges of book. Remainder mark on bottom edge. ; Dust jacket is in a protective mylar cover.

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.

Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good+++. First Printing. From Panama to Vietnam, from the behind-the-lines missions to Laos to a secret strike force mounted against Cuba during the Cuban missle crisis, Sergeant Garner answered the call of duty from around the globe. In this candid and riveting account, Code Name Copperhead details his involvement in over two decades of overt and covert operations. Dj has a very small amount of wear. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Very clean. Full number line. A few black and white photographs. Pictures on request.

HARDCOVER. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Octavo hc w/jacket in mylar, 431pp, octavo, tight binding, clean throughout, clean boards with sharp corners, clean and tight jacket.

Hardcover. Book Club Edition. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; DJ is worn and torn at edges. Previous owner's name. ; B&W Photographs; 431 pages.

Condition: Very Good. NY Simon & Schuster 1994. 1/0/00 Binding: Unknown ISBN:0-671-8643. Very Good. in J Very Good dj. 431 pagesindex; dj in mylar unclipped. Illustrated by 26 BW Photos. F First Edition. Binding is H Hard Cover. 8 vo.

Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 431pp, index, glossary, map. Or white papered boards, red cloth spine, in jacket. Small bump at bottom front corner, minor edge wear to jacket. For 27 years the author served his country as a Special Forces soldier on active duty. He recounts his exploits in Panama, Vietnam, Cuba and other operations around the globe. Size: 8vo.…

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 9.75x6.75x1.50 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. First Printing [Stated]. 431, [1] pages. Map. Glossary. Index. DJ has slight wear and soiling. The top-secret missions of a Special Forces veteran are revealed for the first time in this memoir of perilous adventure--from behind-enemy-lines missions in Laos to a secret strike force heading toward the Cuban missile crisis. Sergeant Major Joe R. Garner served for twenty seven years in the U.S. military, including twenty-one hears of continuous active duty in the Special Forces. He received the Bronze Star, the Air Medal, and numerous other medals, including decorations from the governments of Indonesia, the Republic of South Vietnam, and Laos. Avrum M. Fine was a television writer and also a film editor. Derived from a Kirkus review: A gung-ho account of 27 years in Special Forces. Garner, by his own account, is something of a legend. He begins his own tale with his Special Forces (SF) training days at Fort Bragg in 1958, a period characterized by secrecy, training specializations, and tight-lipped macho toughness. Ten years later, in Vietnam and Laos, he was at first disappointed to see no front-line action for a year and even more peeved to be assigned the duty of taking care of Vietcong POWs. This section of the book is one of its most interesting. The SF men are first trained to withstand enemy torture themselves: In one exercise recruits were forced into steel boxes with a few inches of putrid water for hours and days on end. Later, Throughout this book there are fascinating glimpses of what it was like to be part of a unit. For aspiring soldiers or readers with little interest in larger political themes. It's a pretty gripping account of dirty war. Simon Metz (Jacket photograph). Polly Donnelly St (illustrator).…

First Edition. Pp. 432, 16 plates, text map, glossary, index; med. 8vo; qr. red cloth, spine lettered in gilt, white papered boards; dust wrapper; tape marks on free endpapers; Simon & Schuster, New York, 1994. First edition.