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Code talker
Published 2018 by Dutton Caliber, New York
ISBN 9780425247853
Bib Id 1006692
Copyright 2011
Edition First Dutton Caliber trade paperback edition
Description viii, 310 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
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9780425247853 (paperback) $17.00
0425247856
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B Nez
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Code talker
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Code talker : the first and only memoir by one of the original Navajo code talkers of WWII
Code talker : the first and only memoir by one of the original Navajo code talkers of World War Two
Code talker : the first and only memoir by one of the original Navajo code talkers of World War 2
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First Dutton Caliber trade paperback edition
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2018 by Dutton Caliber, New York :
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©2011
Description
viii, 310 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-296) and index.
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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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