The Airmen and the Headhunters

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  • The Airmen and the Headhunters Book Detail

  • Author : Judith M. Heimann
  • Release Date : 2009-01-15
  • Publisher : HMH
  • Genre : History
  • Pages : 324
  • ISBN 13 : 0547416067
  • File Size : 79,79 MB

The Airmen and the Headhunters by Judith M. Heimann PDF Summary

Book Description: A true story of downed B-24s in Japanese-occupied Borneo and a native tribe that “makes us—like the airmen—rethink our definitions of civilized and savage” (Entertainment Weekly). November 1944: Their B-24 bomber shot down on what should have been an easy mission off the Borneo coast, a scattered crew of Army airmen cut themselves loose from their parachutes—only to be met by loincloth-wearing natives silently materializing out of the mountainous jungle. Would these Dayak tribesmen turn the starving airmen over to the hostile Japanese occupiers? Or would the Dayaks risk vicious reprisals to get the airmen safely home in a desperate game of hide-and-seek? A cinematic survival story featuring a bamboo airstrip built on a rice paddy, a mad British major, and a blowpipe-wielding army that helped destroy one of the last Japanese strongholds, The Airmen and the Headhunters is also a gripping tale of wartime heroism unlike any other you have read.

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