Название: Among the Headhunters: An Extraordinary World War II Story of Survival in the Burmese Jungle
Автор: Robert Lyman
Издательство: Da Capo Press
ISBN: 0306824671
Год: 2016
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 304
Для сайта: litgu.ru
Размер: 28,6 МБ
Язык: Английский
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 doomed aircraft survived-it remains the largest civilian evacuation of an aircraft by parachute. But they fell from the frying pan into the fire.