Code Talker: The First and Only Memoir by One of the Original Navajo Code Talkers of WWII
Language: English
Published by Berkley Caliber, New York, NY, 2011
- First Edition
- Hardcover
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Berkley Caliber, New York. 2011. Hardcover. 11th Printing by Line Number. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Near Fine; slight edge wear. DJ: light bumping to head, tail, tips, and panel top and bottom edges. Black paper over boards with black overlay on the spine with bright gilt lettering on the spine. 310 pp 8vo. The author is the only original WWII Navajo code talker alive. He went to a boarding school at Ft. Defiance to rid him of his Indian ways but when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, he answer the call to defend the nation as the Navajo have always been warriors. His life on the reservation made him tough and strong both physically and mentally- just what the United States Marines were looking for. The Japanese had cracked every code the military used but then Marines turned to the Navajo recruits to develop a secret military language, unbroken in modern warfare- the Navajo Language. A clean very presentable copy.
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- Title
- Code Talker: The First and Only Memoir by One of the Original Navajo Code Talkers of WWII
- Author
- Chester Nez
- Publisher
- Berkley Caliber, New York, NY
- Publication year
- 2011
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Dust jacket
- Very Good +
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0425244237
- ISBN 13
- 9780425244234
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Printing
- 5th or later Printin
- Dimensions
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
- Seller catalogs
- Autobiography, United States Marine Corps, World War II
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, Chester Nez is the only one still alive. The original twenty-nine were the men who first devised the code, then proved it indispensable in combat.
In this memoir, the ninety-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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About the Author
Judith Schiess Avila conducted three years of interviews with Chester Nez before committing his story to paper. She lives in New Mexico.
Code Talker won the New Mexico Press Women's Zia Award and the New Mexico/Arizona Book Award. NPR (National Public Radio) read the entire book on-air.
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