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Among the headhunters

an extraordinary World War II story of survival in the Burmese jungle

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An edition of Among the headhunters (2016)

Among the headhunters

an extraordinary World War II story of survival in the Burmese jungle

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"Flying the notorious "Hump" route between India and China in 1943, a twin engine Curtiss-Wright C-46 plane suffered engine failure and crashed over the mountainous, remote border country. Among the passengers and crew were celebrated CBS journalist Eric Sevareid, a Soviet double-agent posing as an OSS operative, and General "Vinegar Joe" Stillwell's personal political adviser. Against the odds, all but one of the twenty-one people on the doomed aircraft survived. But they fell from the frying pan into the fire. Disentangling themselves from their chutes the shocked survivors discovered that they had arrived in wild country dominated by a tribe with a reason to hate white men. The Nagas were notorious headhunters who routinely practiced slavery and human sacrifice, their specialty being the removal of enemy heads. And Japanese soldiers lay close by too, with their own brand of a special hatred for American flyers. Among the Headhunters is the first-ever account of this incredible true World War II story of the adventures of these men among the Naga warriors, their sustenance from the air by the USAAF, and ultimate rescue by a military expedition. In this meeting two very different worlds collided, American and Naga. The young, exuberant apostles of the vast industrial democracy of the United States came face-to-face with an ancient race determined to preserve their local power, based on head-hunting and slaving traditions"--

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Hachette Books
Language
English
Pages
262

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Table of Contents

Dumbastapur
Burmese days
Banzai!
The crash
Vinegar Joe
The passengers
Dr. Sevareid, I presume?
Taming the Nagas
The 1936 punitive expedition
The battle of Pangsha
Return to Mokokchung
Eric and the headhunters
Mongsen
The sahib of Mokokchung
The long walk home
Return to Chabua
Blackie's gang.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (pages 242-246) and index.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
940.54/4973092, B
Library of Congress
D767.6 .L953 2016

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxiii, 262 pages
Number of pages
262

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL27208313M
Internet Archive
amongheadhunters0000lyma
ISBN 10
0306824671
ISBN 13
9780306824678
LCCN
2016006387
OCLC/WorldCat
914195447

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