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开 本: 32开纸 张: 胶版纸包 装: 平装是否套装: 否国际标准书号ISBN: 9780156033251
November 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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