BookShared
  • MEMBER AREA    
  • The Airmen and the Headhunters: A True Story of Lost Soldiers, Heroic Tribesmen and the Unlikeliest Rescue of World War II

    (By Judith M. Heimann)

    Book Cover Watermark PDF Icon Read Ebook
    ×
    Size 25 MB (25,084 KB)
    Format PDF
    Downloaded 640 times
    Last checked 12 Hour ago!
    Author Judith M. Heimann
    “Book Descriptions: 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 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.”

    Google Drive Logo DRIVE
    Book 1

    The Last Paladin

    ★★★★★

    P.T. Deutermann

    Book 1

    The Last Escaper: The Untold First-Hand Story of the Legendary World War II Bomber Pilot, "Cooler King" and Arch Escape Artist

    ★★★★★

    Peter Tunstall

    Book 1

    To the Edges of the Earth: 1909, the Race for the Three Poles, and the Climax of the Age of Exploration

    ★★★★★

    Edward J. Larson

    Book 1

    One of Our Submarines (Pen & Sword Military Classics)

    ★★★★★

    Edward Young

    Book 1

    Hidden Mountains: Survival and Reckoning After a Climb Gone Wrong

    ★★★★★

    Michael Wejchert

    Book 1

    Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe

    ★★★★★

    Laurence Bergreen