Copyright © 2016 by Robert Lyman
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Lyman, Robert, author.
Title: Among the headhunters: an extraordinary World War II story of survival in the Burmese jungle / Robert Lyman.
Description: Boston, MA: Da Capo Press, a member of the Perseus Books Group, [2016] | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016006387 (print) | LCCN 2016006988 (ebook) | ISBN 9780306824685 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: World War, 1939–1945—Burma. | World War, 1939–1945—Aerial operations, American. | World War, 1939–1945—Jungle warfare. | Naga (South Asian people)—Burma. | Burma—History—Japanese occupation, 1942–1945. | Sevareid, Eric, 1912–1992.
Classification: LCC D767.6.L953 2016 (print) | LCC D767.6 (ebook) | DDC 940.54/4973092—dc23
LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2016006387
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