Cold War Navy SEAL: My Story of Che Guevara, War in the Congo, and the Communist Threat in Africa [SIGNED BY BOTH AUTHORS] [FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING] Hawes, James M.; Koenig, Mary Ann Signed and Inscribed

As new black boards with silver spine lettering contained in an as new condition non price-clipped color photographic dust jacket. Includes Author Dedication; Acknowledgments; Names and Places; Preface; Introduction; Epilogue: A Reunion Fifty Years Later; Bibliography; Endnotes and Index. Illustrated with a section of both black-and-white and color photographic plates. Signed and inscribed by both authors, James M. Hawes and Mary Ann Koenig, with black ink on the blank first free front endpaper. "The extraordinary firshand account of Lt. James Hawes' unbelievable experiences as a Navy SEAL officer assigned to a highly classified CIA program, Operation Dragon Rouge, the largest successful hostage rescue mission on US history. His riveting story describes in compelling detail his involvement with Che Guevara, the war in the Congo, and his role in building a clandestine mercenary navy with the objective of defeating the Simba insurgency in Africa." - Don D. Mann, bestselling author of Inside SEAL Team SIX. "Readers will welcome this unique, firsthand account of outstanding operations carried ou in the Congo in the mid 1960s at the height of the Cold War.How Jim broke the back of the Simba rebellion and much more is part of this entertaining and informative book." - Dick Holm, recipient of CIA Distinguished Intelligence Medal and author. "A well-documented, fast-paced account.This book provides unique, firsthand insight into the complicated political and military milieu in the Congo region of Africa during the mid-1960s, and is a must-read." - Captain Bob Gormly, USN (SEAL) retired, and author. "A fascinating and vivid first-person account.Boasts a rogues' gallery of characters more cololrful and frightening than those imagined by Ian Fleming - among them the notorious Che Guevara. A must-read for anyone interested in clandestine operations and Cold War history." - Ralph Pezzullo. "The Secrets Of A Navy SEAL Revealed For The First Time. Sometime in 1965, James Hawes landed in the Congo with cash stuffed in his socks, morphine in his bag, and a basic understanding of his mission: recruit a mercenary navy and suppress the Soviet and Chinese backed rebels engaged in guerilla movements against a pro-Western government. According to the US government, he did not, and could not, exist; he knew he was on his own. He did not know that Che Guevara was attempting to export his revolution a few miles away. Cold War Navy SEAL gives unprecedented insight into a clandestine chapter in US history through the experiences of Hawes, a distinguished Navy frogman and late a CIA contractor. His journey began as an officer in the newly formed SEAL Team 2, where Hawes trained the commandos that instigatted the Gulf of Tonkin incident. Then the CIA tapped Hawes to deploy to the Congo. In vivid detail that rivals any action movie, Hawes recalls recruiting and managing some of the most dangerous mercenaries in Africa, battling rebels with a crew of anti-Castro Cuban exiles to complete a seemingly impossible mission, and expelling Guevara to stem the rising tide of communism in Africa. Complete with never-before-seen photographs and interviews with fellow operatives in the Congo, Cold War Navy SEAL is an unblinking look at a portion of Cold War history never told before." - from the inner front and rear jacket flaps.