Airmen And The Headhunters, The
A True Story of Lost Soldiers, Heroic Tribesmen and the Unlikeliest Rescue of World War II
$33.49
- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
28 December 2008
Summary
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
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| ISBN-13: | 9780156033251 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0156033259 |
| Author: | Judith M. Heimann |
| Publisher: | Harcourt Publishers,U.S. |
| Imprint: | Harcourt Publishers,U.S. |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 28 December 2008 |
| Weight: | 376g |
| Dimensions: | 19mm x 146mm x 203mm |
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Critics Review
” The Airmen and the Headhunters is an engaging and unique tale of courage and rescue. Heimann has created a nuanced portrait of Borneo and a fascinating group of truly heroic tribesmen.”
PRAISE FOR THE MOST OFFENDING SOUL ALIVE
“Lively and scrupulously researched.” –The New Yorker
“Explorer, museum curator, guerilla fighter, pioneer sociologist, documentary filmmaker, anthropologist–Tom Harrisson was all these things. He was also arrogant, choleric, swashbuckling, often drunk, and nearly always deliberately outrageous. In spite of these contradictions, he became a key figure in every enterprise he undertook … A brilliant and insightful biography.” –David Attenborough
About The Author
Judith M. Heimann
JUDITH M. HEIMANN is a career diplomat and the author of The Most Offending Soul Alive. She spent seven years living in Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines, and speaks Indonesian. She traveled to three continents and interviewed all the surviving Dayaks and airmen in her research for this book. She lives in Washington, D.C., and Brussels.
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