Code Talker: The First and Only Memoir By One of the Original Navajo Code Talkers of WWII
by Nez, Chester; Avila, Judith Schiess
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- ISBN 10
- 0425247856
- ISBN 13
- 9780425247853
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The first and only memoir by one of the original Navajo code talkers of WWII-includes the actual Navajo Code and rare photos. Although more than 400 Navajos served in the military during World War II as top-secret code talkers, even those fighting shoulder to shoulder with them were not told of their covert function. And, after the war, the Navajos were forbidden to speak of their service until 1968, when the code was finally declassified. Of the original twenty- nine Navajo code talkers, only two are still alive. Chester Nez is one of them. In this memoir, the eighty-nine-year-old Nez chronicles both his war years and his life growing up on the Checkerboard Area of the Navajo Reservation-the hard life that gave him the strength, both physical and mental, to become a Marine. His story puts a living face on the legendary men who developed what is still the only unbroken code in modern warfare.
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- Title
- Code Talker: The First and Only Memoir By One of the Original Navajo Code Talkers of WWII
- Author
- Nez, Chester; Avila, Judith Schiess
- Format/Binding
- Soft cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 3rd Printing
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0425247856
- ISBN 13
- 9780425247853
- Publisher
- Berkley Caliber
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2012
- Pages
- 320
- Keywords
- AUTOBIOGRAPHY CRYPTOGRAPHY MARINES UNITED STATES NAVAJO INDIANS MEMOIR INDIGENOUS
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- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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