02876cam a2200517 i 4500 1155171769 TxAuBib 20240226120000.0 110610t20182011||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2011023701 9780425244234 0425244237 9780425247853 0425247856 (OCoLC)706017769 TxAuBib rda Nez, Chester,. Code talker / Chester Nez, with Judith Schiess Avila ; foreword by Jeff Bingaman, United States Senator from New Mexico. 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. First Dutton Caliber trade paperback edition. New York : Dutton Caliber, 2018. ©2011. viii, 310 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "Includes the actual Navajo code and rare photos"--Page [1] of cover. Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-296) and index. 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. 20240226. Nez, Chester. United States Marine Corps Biography. Navajo code talkers Biography. World War, 1939-1945 Cryptography. World War, 1939-1945 Personal narratives, American. World War, 1939-1945 Participation, Indian. Marines United States Biography. Navajo Indians Biography. Autobiographies. lcgft Personal narratives. nonfiction. Avila, Judith Schiess,. Bingaman, Jeff, author of foreword.