Code talker / Chester Nez, with Judith Schiess Avila.

Code talker / Chester Nez, with Judith Schiess Avila.

First edition.

9780425244234
0425244237

New York : Berkley Caliber, 2011.

English

viii, 310 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

D810.C88 N49 2011

940.54/5973092 B

Chester Nez, the last surviving member of the original twenty-nine code talkers, discusses his life growing up in the Checkerboard Area of the Navajo reservation, and shares the story of how he helped the United States develop and implement a secret military language based on his native language during World War II that became the only unbroken code in modern warfare.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-296) and index.

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