JUDITH M. HEIMANN is a career diplomat and the author of The Most Offending Soul Alive. She spent seven years living in Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines, and speaks Indonesian. She traveled to three continents and interviewed all the surviving Dayaks and airmen in her research for this book. She lives in Washington, D.C., and Brussels.
"The Airmen and the Headhunters is an engaging and unique tale of
courage and rescue. Heimann has created a nuanced portrait of
Borneo and a fascinating group of truly heroic tribesmen."--Alex
Kershaw, author of THE FEW
"Sixty years later, World War II is still giving up its secrets.
The Airmen and the Headhunters recovers a forgotten tale from the
far Pacific that should interest anyone who cares about the
gallantry of our aviators who flew into harm's way."--James
Hornfischer, author of SHIP OF GHOSTS
PRAISE FOR THE MOST OFFENDING SOUL ALIVE "Lively and scrupulously
researched." --The New Yorker "Explorer, museum curator, guerilla
fighter, pioneer sociologist, documentary filmmaker,
anthropologist--Tom Harrisson was all these things. He was also
arrogant, choleric, swashbuckling, often drunk, and nearly always
deliberately outrageous. In spite of these contradictions, he
became a key figure in every enterprise he undertook . . . A
brilliant and insightful biography." --David Attenborough
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