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The First and Only Memoir By One of the Original Navajo Code Talkers of WWII
Berkley
September 2011
On Sale: September 6, 2011
320 pages
ISBN: 0425244237
EAN: 9780425244234
Kindle: B005ERIRHW
Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction Biography
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, 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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