Code talker

by Nez, Chester

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Title Statements

Full title :Code talker / Chester Nez with Judith Schiess Avila.

Summary

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.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2011
Edition:First Dutton Caliber trade paperback edition

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Dutton Caliber
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2011

Notes

"The first and only memoir by one of the original Navajo code talkers of WWII"-- Subtitle from cover.

"Includes the actual Navajo Code and rare photos"--Cover

The Physical Object

Description:viii, 310 pages, 16 unnumbered leaves of plates : : illustrations, maps ; : 23 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780425247853, 0425247856
oclc:on1079366727
LC Classification:D810.C88
Dewey Decimal:940.548673092

Subjects

1939 - 1945 Autobiographies Autobiography Biographies Biography Cryptography États-Unis., Marine Corps Fusiliers marins -- Biographies. -- Éta… Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 -- Cryptogra… Marines Marines -- Biography. -- United States Military participation -- Indian Navajo (Indiens) -- Biographies Navajo code talkers Navajo code talkers -- Biography Navajo Indians Navajo Indians -- Biography Nez, Chester Personal Narrative Personal narratives