Full name: Navajo Weapon: The Navajo Code Talkers

Author: Sally McClain Year: 1994 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9781887896320 1887896325

Read the True Story that inspired Windtalkers, a major summer 2002 release that honors the Navajo Code Talkers of World War II, directed by John Woo (Mission Impossible II) and starring Nicholas Cage and Adam Beach. Based on first-person accounts and Marine Corps documents, this newly revised edition of Navajo Weapon: The Navajo Code Talkers describes how the U.S. Marine Corps recruited young Navajo warriors to create a secret code, using their native language that many of them had once been forbidden to speak.The Navajo Code Talkers played decisive roles in the Pacific Theater and helped turned the tide in the bloody battles for Bougainville, Cape Gloucester, New Britain, Saipan, Guam, Peleliu, and Iwo Jima. Their unbreakable code helped save countless American lives and earned the Navajo Code Talkers the undying respect of their comrades in arms. Similar books: The Good Fight by Stephen E. Ambrose Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare by Giles Milton Wartime by Juliet Gardiner Tears in the Darkness by Michael Norman Escape From Davao by John D. Lukacs Forgotten Voices of the Second World War by Max Arthur 1939 by Richard Overy The Storm of War by Andrew Roberts Surviving the Sword by Brian MacArthur Moral Combat by Michael Burleigh The People's War by Angus Calder Fateful Choices by Ian Kershaw Year Zero by Ian Buruma Station X by Michael Smith The Pacific by Hugh Ambrose Dead Wake by Erik Larson One Summer: America, 1927 by Bill Bryson Six Frigates by Ian W. Toll 102 Minutes by Jim Dwyer The History of Jihad by Robert Spencer