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2002 John Woo (Broken Arrow, Face/Off, Mission Impossible 2) turns his attention to World War Two in Windtalkers, starring Nicolas Cage, Adam Beach and Christian Slater. During the Pacific campaign, where US forces cleared island after island on their way to the Japan, the Japanese became very adept at breaking US coded military transmissions. In what proved to be successful solution to the problem, the US marines recruited several hundred Navajo Americans who used their language as code. In Windtalkers, Marine Joe Enders (Nicolas Cage) is assigned to protect Ben Yahzee (Adam Beach) - a Navajo code talker. However, if his charge should fall in enemy hands, he is to "protect the code at all costs". Enders is faced with a nightmare choice during the Battle of Saipan, where capture by the Japanese could happen at any moment: if he can't protect his fellow Marine, can he bring himself to kill him to protect the code? © Amazon.com Click
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Amazon.com: Track listing: 1. Navajo Dawn, 2. A New Assignment, 3. An Act of Heroism, 4. Taking the Beachhead, 5. ''First Blood'' Ceremony, 6. The Night Before, 7. Marine Assault, 8. Losses Mounting, 9. Friends In War, 10. A Sacrifice Never Forgotten, 11. Calling to the Wind Buy the soundtrack at Amazon.com: Windtalkers Windtalkers by Max Allan Collins In the brutal fires of war, two men come together from different worlds. Joe Enders is a haunted warrior plagued by guilt, the only man to survive a terrifying bloodbath on the Tarawa Atoll. Ben Yahzee is a "codetalker," a gentle, proud Navajo who transmits secret military code created from his Native American tongue -- a language the Japanese enemy cannot decipher. One Marine fighting his demons and another battling prejudice and his own inner fears, their lives are joined in the most horrific hell of the war-torn Pacific. © Amazon.com Buy a copy at Amazon.com: Windtalkers Windtalkers: The Making of the John Woo Film about the Navajo Code Talkers of World War II (Newmarket Pictorial Movebooks) With more than 100 dramatic movie and historical photos, the official tie-in to the film starring Nicolas Cage, based on real events about the Navajo Marine code talkers, who developed the only American code the Japanese never cracked—from MGM in June 2002. In the first movie made on the subject, director John Woo (Mission: Impossible 2, Face/Off) reveals the invaluable actions of the Navajo code talkers during the war in the Pacific, heroes whose bravery earned them the Congressional Medal of Honor. The code talkers transmitted radio messages using a secret, efficient, unbreakable code based on their native language. The film's gripping climax takes place during the Battle of Saipan, when the Marines, fighting off the Japanese, must risk their lives to safeguard the code. This full-color companion book tells the fascinating story behind the movie—from facts about the code's creation to historical background of the Navajo nation; from a glimpse into the rigorous code talker training program to production details about transforming a Hawaiian landscape into a Saipan battlefront. The pages are filled with captivating color images from the film and historic photographs from the U.S. Marines and the National Archives, as well personal reflections by Woo and Senator Jeff Bingaman, screenwriters, producers, and actors—plus samples and translations of the Navajo code. Approx. 100 color photos. © Amazon.com Buy a copy at Amazon.com: Paperback, Hardcover The Navajo Code Talkers (25th Anniversary Edition) by Doris A. Paul An intriguing account of a select platoon of Marines known as the Navajo Code Talkers, the subject of the upcoming John Woo / Nicholas Cage movie 'Windtalkers.' During World War II, the Navajo Code Talkers devised and employed a secret code using their native tongue, a code which proved totally undecipherable to the enemy, enabling American forces to prevail in the South Pacific. The Navajo Code Talkers is the single most comprehensive account of the contribution of the Navajo native Americans in World War II. It's authentic photos and illustrations have been featured on CBS Television's "An American Portrait" series, and the book itself has been profiled on the ABC Nightly News. It is also among the select 10 perecnt of all books written by white men or women on the native Americans to be chsoen by the Navajos for display in their tribal museum. © Amazon.com Buy a copy at Amazon.com: The Navajo Code Talkers |
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