Buckley, James
Summary: "By the time the United States joined the Second World War in 1941, the fight against Nazi and Axis powers had already been under way for two years. In order to win the war and protect its soldiers, the US Marines recruited twenty-nine Navajo men to create a secret code that could be used to send military messages quickly and safely across battlefields. Author James Buckley Jr. explains how...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.54 BUCCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.54 BUCCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J900 WHORogers, Kim
Summary: "A biographical picture book about Clarence Tinker, a member of the Osage Nation, who endured abuse growing up at the hands of a boarding school and went on to serve in the United States Air Force in World War II"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Heartdrum, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2024
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 TINAaseng, Nathan.
Summary: Describes how the American military in World War II used a group of Navajo Indians to create an indecipherable code based on their native language.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Walker 1992
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.5486 AASMcClain, S. (Sally)
Summary: Based on first-person accounts and Marine Corps documents, and featuring the original code dictionary, Navajo Weapon tells how the code talkers created a unique code within a code, served their country in combat, and saved American lives.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Rio Nuevo Publishers 2001
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5403 MCCSummary: "There has been a great deal of writing the past several decades about Native American Code Talkers of World War Two. The published works have been about Navajos and the tremendous contribution they made in the Pacific campaigns of the war. What is often overlooked is the role played in both World Wars by men of other tribes. There were Cherokee, Choctaw, Comanche, Creek and other tribal...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Reycraft Books 2019
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Bruchac, Joseph
Summary: After being taught in a boarding school run by whites that Navajo is a useless language, Ned Begay and other Navajo men are recruited by the Marines to become Code Talkers, sending messages during World War II in their native tongue.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books 2005
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BRUCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BRUCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC BRUSummary: The documentary provides viewers with highly personal insights from a group of Native American war heroes regarding their service on behalf of the United States and the Navajo Nation. The secret code these marines developed, based on the unwritten Navaho language, was never broken, giving American troops an upper hand in many battles that ultimately led to Japan's surrender in 1945.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC NAVSorell, Traci
Summary: "At the mountain's base sits a cabin under an old hickory tree. And in that cabin lives a family -- loving, weaving, cooking, and singing. The strength in their song sustains them through trials on the ground and in the sky, as they wait for their loved one, a pilot, to return from war."--Amazon.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Kokila, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SORCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SORNez, Chester.
Summary: A retired Marine and Navajo Indian describes his experiences as one of twenty-nine top-secret code talkers during World War II and how his life growing up on the Checkerboard Area of the Navajo Reservation prepared him for his service.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media, Inc. 2011
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD 940.54 NEZ, CHESTER NezBaker, Brynn.
Summary: "Discusses the heroic actions and experiences of the Navajo code talkers and the impact they made during times of war and conflict"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.54 BAKBruchac, Joseph
Summary: "As a boy, Chester Nez was taught his native language and culture were useless, but he was later called on to use his Navajo language to help create an unbreakable military code during WWII"--Provided by publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman & Company 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 NEZHoliday, Samuel
Summary: "Samuel Holiday was one of a small group of Navajo men enlisted by the Marine Corps during World War II to use their native language to transmit secret communications on the battlefield. Under the Eagle ranges from Holiday's childhood years in rural Monument Valley, Utah, into the world of the United States's Pacific campaign against Japan--to Kwajalein, Saipan, Tinian, and Iwo Jima. Central to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Hoena, B. A.
Summary: "Describes the creation of the top secret Navajo code during World War II and its use in several major battles of the war"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a capstone imprint 2020
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Aaseng, Nathan.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2002
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 940.5486 AASSummary: The aim of these lectures is to make viewers feel welcome and comfortable in the company of paintings. By focusing on 65 masterpieces of Western painting, Professor William Kloss offers a vivid, visceral encounter with genius, shining light on the unique technical, stylistic, and expressive achievements of each painting. From the 14th century to the 20th, the images are examined for their...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2010
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 759 World 2010Summary: The development of the arts in Europe from the Middle Ages to the modern era is an astonishing record of cultural achievement, from the breathtaking architecture of Gothic cathedrals to the daring visual experiments of the Cubist painters. We all have our favorite artists, periods, or styles from this immensely rich tradition, but how many of us truly know the full sweep of European art? How...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2005
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 HISBiskup, Agnieszka
Summary: "Soon after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, they also attacked U.S. military installations in the Philippines. For the army and navy nurses stationed there, what had been a peaceful outpost quickly turned into a raging war zone. When the U.S. and Philippine forces retreated to the Bataan Peninsula and the fortress island of Corregidor, the nurses followed them to the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, an imprint of Capstone 2023
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Summary: During World War II, a group of Jewish-American guerilla soldiers, led by Lt. Aldo Raine, become known as "The Basterds." They are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis. The Basterds soon cross paths with a French-Jewish woman who runs a movie theater in Paris which is targeted by the soldiers. A plot is set in motion to kill the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2009
Sorry, no copies available
Runyan, Aimie K.
Summary: "Russia, 1941. Katya Ivanova is a young pilot in a far-flung military academy in the Ural Mountains. From childhood, she's dreamed of taking to the skies to escape her bleak mountain life. With the Nazis on the march across Europe, she is called on to use her wings to serve her country in its darkest hour. Not even the entreaties of her new husband, a sensitive artist who fears for her safety,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Lake Union Publishing 2018