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Code talker / Chester Nez with Judith Schiess Avila.

Nez, Chester, (author.). Avila, Judith Schiess, (author.).

Summary:

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.

Record details

ISBN: 9780425247853 (trade paperback)
Physical Description: viii, 310 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Edition: First Dutton Caliber trade paperback edition.
Publisher: New York, New York : Caliber, 2018.
Copyright: ©2011

Content descriptions

General Note:	"The first and only memoir by one of the original Navajo code talkers of WWII"--Cover. Originally published in hardcover: New York : Berkley Caliber, 2011.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.