In early 1942, during the grim months following the abrupt bombing of Pearl Harbor, a group of 29 Navajo Marines, immediately after their training camp, were taken to a room with barred windows and guards. Their task was to devise a top-secret code that the best cryptanalytic minds in the Empire of Japan could not decipher. And they succeeded! This book documents their amazing wartime achievement: the formation and use of the Navajo code.
But the book also chronicles the lives of eight Navajo code talkers - in their own words. They tell about their difficult living conditions, especially in their childhood, their experiences during boarding school days, where the use of their Navajo mother tongue was strictly forbidden, sometimes even stopped by brutal means. This book is her life story. It is the story of a code and its humble beginnings, a code that most brilliant minds could not break, a code that saved thousands of American lives. It is a story about a perilous task, often under deadly enemy fire, where some paid the ultimate price. It is a story about intelligence, courage and ultimately patriotism.
Group
Books (first-hand)
Author
Mack, Stephen
Title
Es musste getan werden. Die Navajo Code-Sprecher erinnern sich an den Zweiten Weltkrieg
Details
Paperback, numerous bw illustrations 136 pp.
State
new
TraumFänger Verlag Dorfener Weg 14 83104 Hohenthann Deutschland
