Among the Headhunters: An Extraordinary World War II Story of Survival in the Burmese Jungle

Author: Major Robert Lyman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Flying the notorious "Hump" route between India and China in 1943, a twin-engine plane suffered mechanical failure and crashed in a dense mountain jungle, deep within Japanese-held territory. Among the passengers and crew were celebrated CBS journalist Eric Sevareid, an OSS operative who was also a Soviet double agent, and General Joseph "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell's personal political adviser. Against the odds, all but one of the twenty-one people aboard the...Read more