I Could Tell You But Then You Would Have to Be Destroyed by Me: Emblems from the Pentagon's Black World (Used Paperback) - Trevor Paglen

They’re on the shoulders of all military personnel: patches showing what a soldier’s unit does. But what if that’s top secret?

I Could Tell You... is a bestselling collection of more than seventy military patches representing secret government projects. Here author/photographer/investigator Trevor Paglen explores classified weapons projects and intelligence operations by scrutinizing their own imagery and jargon, disclosing new facts about important military units, which are here known by peculiar names (“Goat Suckers,” “Grim Reapers,” “Tastes Like Chicken”) and illustrated with occult symbols and ridiculous cartoons. The precisely photographed patches—worn by military personnel working on classified missions, such as those at the legendary Area 51—reveal much about a strange and eerie world about which little was previously known.

Published Melville House Publishing 2010

155 pages

6" x 7.25"

Condition: This book is in Very Good Condition. The pages are clean and unmarked. There is some scuffing and corner wear on the cover.