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Code Talker: The First and Only Memoir By One of the Original Navajo Code Talkers of WWII [SIGNED]

Code Talker: The First and Only Memoir By One of the Original Navajo Code Talkers of WWII [SIGNED]

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Code Talker: The First and Only Memoir By One of the Original Navajo Code Talkers of WWII [SIGNED]

by Nez, Chester; Schiess Avila, Judith

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New York: Dutton Caliber, 2012. First PB Edition. 5th or later Printing. Trade Paper. Fine/Wraps. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Later printing. Trade PB in photo wraps. Fine. SIGNED BY AUTHOR J S Avila on title page. viii, 310pp inc. Author's Note, Appendix, Bibliography, Index; illustrated in photos on glossy paper. Uncommon signed.

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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, 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.

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Bookseller's Inventory #
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Title
Code Talker: The First and Only Memoir By One of the Original Navajo Code Talkers of WWII [SIGNED]
Author
Nez, Chester; Schiess Avila, Judith
Format/Binding
Trade Paper
Book Condition
Used - Fine
Jacket Condition
Wraps
Quantity Available
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Edition
First PB Edition. 5th or later Printing
Binding
Paperback
ISBN 10
0425247856
ISBN 13
9780425247853
Publisher
Dutton Caliber
Place of Publication
New York
Date Published
2012
Pages
320
Size
8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Keywords
MILITARY HISTORY WORLD WAR II WWII NAVAJO CODE TALKER
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Military; Signed Books; History;

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