November 1944: Their B-24 bomber shot down on what should have been an easy mission off the Borneo coast, a scattered crew of Army airmen cut themselves loose from their parachutesonly to be met by loincloth-wearing natives silently materializing out of the mountainous 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 in a desperate game of hide-and-seek?
A cinematic survival story featuring 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 also a gripping tale of wartime heroism unlike any other you have read.
PRAISE FOR THE AIRMEN AND THE HEADHUNTERS
""With her title alone . . . Heimann rivets one’s attention.""The Washington Post Book World
""Heimann brings a visceral urgency to one of WWII's most unlikely tales . . . Along the way, she makes uslike the airmenrethink our definitions of civilized and savage.""Entertainment Weekly