The First Code Talkers: Native American Communicators in World War I LGBTQ+ and finally to Flanders

and finally to Flanders

The boy had asked the little lead soldier to write him with news of his father

unaware that their greatest challenges are still to come

A work of epic scale

and sinking ships-enriching each memory with personal anecdote

The First Code Talkers: Native American Communicators in World War I LGBTQ+ and finally to FlandersDescription by William C. Meadows Hardcover Many Americans know something about the Navajo code talkers in World War IIbut little else about the military service of Native Americans, who have served in our armed forces since the American Revolution, and still serve in larger numbers than any other ethnic group. But, as we learn in this splendid work of historical restitution, code talking originated in World War I among Native soldiers whose