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

The first-ever account of a crashed U.S. command plane and the surviors' month-long ordeal in a remote area occupied by Headhunters and Japanese soldiers.

Flying the notorious "hump route" between India and China in1943, a twin-engine plane suffered mechanical failure and crashed in a dense mountain jungle.  Among the passengers and crew were celebrated CBS journalist Eric Sevareid, a Soviet double agent posing as an OSS operative, and General Joseph "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell's personal political adviser.

Against the odds, all but one of the twenty-one people aboard the aircraft survived.  They landed in wild countryside dominated by the Nagas, notorious Headhunters who routinely practiced slavery and human sacrifice.  Japanese soldiers lay close by, too, with their own brand of hatred for Americans.  Among the Headhunters is the first account of this incredible story.