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| AUTHOR: | Max A. Collins |
| CATEGORY: | Book |
| MANUFACTURER: | HarperEntertainment |
| ISBN: | 0060000961 |
| TYPE: | Fiction, Fiction - Historical, Historical - General, Movie-TV Tie-In - General, War & Military, Fiction / Movie or Television Tie-In |
| MEDIA: | Paperback |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
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Customer Reviews of Windtalkers
Pretty Dreary Stuff To give credit where credit is due, there are some good action scenes, and the plot does more swiftly along the predictable course. But this is really rough going.
To begin with, they have jazzed up the actions of the Navajo codetalker. Instead of showing what they mainly did -- sending coded messages about important logistics, intelligence, and operations functions -- we are shown them as code-talking basic artillery fire missions at small-unit level. I guess it is more exciting to have them screaming the Navajo code for, "We need fire support, now!!!" than reciting, "We need 3000 howitzer shells within three days."
For the most part this is unojbectionable pulp -- barely edited (Marines wear "boondoggers"?).
It retells the story from history repeating itself.
Cpl. Joe Enders is in the middle of the swamp somewhere in the island, by given his first command to 15 marines inculding 3 of his friends fought against hundreds of japanese soilders until only one survived, Joe Enders. After Joe got a promotion to a Sergeant he was assigned to his next mission: saipan, which belonged to Japan. His job is to Protect a Navajo Codetalker, Private Ben Zahee at all cost. As the mission Begins, Sgt. Enders finds himself that a Navajo world is different from his world. but this story is about friendship between 2 different man from 2 different worlds.
Wind Talkers - It's even better than the movie.
I have gained a deep respect for the Navajo from the reading of Wind Talkers. We Americans of foreign lineage fail to appreciate our Indian brothers in this country. There is a cult of appreciation of Indians in Germany. When I was in Europe there was a highly publicised entertainment involving American Indians.
The book takes us from the jungles of Guadalcanal to the months of preparation for the invasion of Saipan. We learn that the Indians have dignity and pride and love of family. After reading the book I had an obsessive desire to see the movie. The movie was good, but the book was better.