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The Airmen and the Headhunters: A True Story of Lost Soldiers, Heroic Tribesmen and the Unlikeliest Rescue of World War II
de Judith M. Heimann
- Nuevo
- Tapa blanda
- First
- Estado
- Nuevo/No Jacket Issued
- ISBN 10
- 0156033259
- ISBN 13
- 9780156033251
- Librería
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Wyomissing, Pennsylvania, United States
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A HarvestBook , 2008. 1st Edition Paperback. 1st Printing. Soft cover. New/No Jacket Issued. This WWII Military History Soft cover book is NEW and Unread.. c2008. First Paperback Edition, and 1st Printing. . (Great Book For he Military History Collector). It is NEW and very square and flat. Great condition both inside and out with hardly any shelf wear The Pages are tight & unmarked. no names. NOT a remainder. Illustrations. 289 pages. #219894-1023
Sinopsis
N ovember 1944: Army airmen set out in a B-24 bomber on what should have been an easy mission off the Borneo coast. Instead they found themselves unexpectedly facing a Japanese fleet—and were shot down. When they cut themselves loose from their parachutes, they were scattered across the island’s mountainous interior. Then a group of loincloth-wearing natives silently materialized out of the 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? The tribal leaders’ unprecedented decision led to a desperate game of hide-and-seek, and, ultimately, the return of a long-renounced ritual: head-hunting. A cinematic survival story that features 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 a gripping, you-are-there journey into the remote world and forgotten heroism of the Dayaks.
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- Librería
- Glenn David Books
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 021989
- Título
- The Airmen and the Headhunters: A True Story of Lost Soldiers, Heroic Tribesmen and the Unlikeliest Rescue of World War II
- Autor
- Judith M. Heimann
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Soft cover
- Estado del libro
- Nuevo
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- No Jacket Issued
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- 1st Edition Paperback. 1st Printing
- Encuadernación
- Tapa blanda
- ISBN 10
- 0156033259
- ISBN 13
- 9780156033251
- Editorial
- A HarvestBook
- Lugar de publicación
- Wilmington, Massachusetts, U.s.a.
- Fecha de publicación
- 2008
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