"In 1944, twenty-nine Navajo Marines were assigned to a base in southern California Their mission: design a communications code in their native language. Throughout the war in the Pacific their messages were never deciphered. Much of their success can be credited to the need for substituting over four hundred Navajo words for terms not expressed in their own language. Among these were the Navajo words that translated into Sqaw Dance, which defined bombing area...And history has a way of repeating itself." Author's first mystery