The Navajo Code Talkers

Philadelphia, PA: Dorrance & Company. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1973. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. B&W Photographs; This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The bottom corners of the boards have some beginning bumping. The text pages are clean and bright. Pages 149-152 have several tiny edge tears / nicks to the top edges of the pages. There are several following pages with light dog-earred corners. The price clipped dust jacket has some rubbing to the spine ends and corners and also several small edge tears. "The Navajo Indians who rallied to America's call during World War II, to perform a unique and vital duty - that of devising and employing a secret code using their native tongue, a code which proved totally indecipherable to the enemy - are immortalized in this fascinating work." "Code talkers are people in the 20th century who used obscure languages as a means of secret communication during wartime. The term is now usually associated with the United States soldiers during the world wars who used their knowledge of Native American languages as a basis to transmit coded messages. In particular, there were approximately 400–500 Native Americans in the United States Marine Corps whose primary job was the transmission of secret tactical messages. Code talkers transmitted these messages over military telephone or radio communications nets using formal or informally developed codes built upon their native languages. Their service improved the speed of encryption of communications at both ends in front line operations during World War II." .