It Had to Be Done The Navajo Code Talkers Remember World War II

Cortaro, AZ: Whispering Dove Design. Very Good-. 2008. Paperback. 0972889612 . B&W Photographs; 9.80 X 6.90 X 0.60 inches; 96 pages; Soft cover has blue spine with black lettering. AUTHOR SIGNED ON TITLE PAGE. Overall, pages are clean and tight. Pages 26--36 have some slight waving to bottom corner. "In early 1942, during the dark months following the bombing of Pearl Harbor, a group of 29 Navajo Marines, fresh out of boot camp, were taken into a room with bars on the windows and a guard at the door. Their task: devise a top-secret code that would thwart the sharpest cryptanalytic minds in Japan. And they succeeded. This book documents their staggering wartime achievement: the formation and use of the Navajo Code. But the book is also about the lives of 8 Navajo Code Talkers, told in their own words: the difficult living conditions faced during their childhood, and their boarding school experiences where the Navajo language was strictly--somtimes brutally--suppressed. This is their story. It's a story about a code of humble origins; a code that the most brilliant minds were unable to break; a code tha saved thousands of American lives...It's a story about intelligence, courage, and ultimately, about patriotism". Glossary; index. ; Signed by Author .