{"product_id":"code-talker-the-first-and-only-memoir-by-one-of-the-original-navajo-code-talkers-of-wwii","title":"Code Talker The First and Only Memoir By One of the Original Navajo Code Talkers of WWII","description":"\u003cp\u003eCode Talker is the first-person memoir of Chester Nez, one of the original Navajo code talkers, tracing his life from a New Mexico reservation and the cultural erasure of boarding school to his enlistment after Pearl Harbor and frontline service in the Pacific. Nez recounts how the Navajo recruits transformed their language into an unbroken wartime cipher—used in campaigns from Guadalcanal to Peleliu and Guam—and how that secret communications system helped secure U.S. victories while revealing the tensions between patriotism and the discrimination Native Americans faced at home.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePresented as a veteran’s testimony, this Penguin-published memoir (co-authored by Judith Schiess Avila) is notable for its historical specificity and primary-source value: it includes the actual Navajo code and rare photographs, and situates Navajo culture, Marine Corps communications, and cryptographic history within the broader story of WWII’s Pacific Theater—making it essential for military historians, Indigenous studies, and readers of oral history. ISBN 9780425247853.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WW2 Bunker","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44298888839270,"sku":"9780425247853","price":9.01,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0679\/4926\/4998\/files\/kWBEdRgZdNviu5PWtw9ajk1zGziyuH-6eq85BVjo5F4.jpg?v=1767230704","url":"https:\/\/ww2bunker.com\/products\/code-talker-the-first-and-only-memoir-by-one-of-the-original-navajo-code-talkers-of-wwii","provider":"WW2 Bunker","version":"1.0","type":"link"}