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Titles appearing in Reference — Research Book News — December 2011
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Code talker.

Nez, Chester and Judith Schiess Avila.
Berkley Publishing Group, ©2011    310 p.    $26.95    D810
978-0-425-24423-4

This memoir explores the life and times of Chester Nez the last surviving Navajo code-talker of World War II. The personal narrative recounts the development of the unbreakable Navajo code and the daring and courage of the Indian men who helped win the war in the Pacific. The work includes a collection of gloss black and white plates and will be of interest to general readers as well as war historians interested in codes and cryptography. Co-author Avila is a code talker scholar with the New Mexico Endowment for the Humanities. (Annotation ©2011 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)