Title:
Navajo code talkers / Nathan Aaseng.
Author:
Aaseng, Nathan.
Publication Information:
New York : Walker, c2002, c1992.
Call Number:
D810.C88 A24 2002
Abstract:
Describes how the American military in World War II used a group of Navajo Indians to create an indecipherable code based on their native language.
Edition:
1st pbk. ed.
ISBN:
9780802776273
Physical Description:
ix, 114 p. : ill., map ; 23 cm.
General Note:
"Originally published in the United States of America in 1992 by Walker Publishing Company, Inc."--T.p. verso.
Contents:
Foreword / Roy O. Hawthorne -- War of words -- Needed: an unbreakable code -- Creating the code -- Earning the trust -- Life in the war zone -- Breaking Japanese codes -- Island-hopping -- Battle of Sulfur Island: the code talkers' finest hour -- Back home.
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