Lost in Shangri-La · A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II
- Authors
- Zuckoff, Mitchell
- Publisher
- HarperCollins e-books
- Tags
- united states - search and rescue operations , war , history , 1939-1945 - search and rescue operations - united states , primitive societies , missing in action , american , 1939-1945 - aerial operations , survival after airplane accidents , world war , shipwrecks , etc , etc. , aircraft accidents - new guinea , adventure , etc - new guinea , 1939-1945 , general , airplane crash survival - new guinea , military , world war ii , aircraft accidents , 1939-1945 - search and rescue operations - new guinea , new guinea , 1939-1945 - missing in action - new guinea , primitive societies - new guinea , biography
- ISBN
- 9780062087140
- Date
- 2011-04-24T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 3.86 MB
- Lang
- en
“A lost world, man-eating tribesmen, lush andimpenetrable jungles, stranded American fliers (one of them a dame withgreat gams , for heaven's sake), a startling rescue mission. . . . This is atrue story made in heaven for a writer as talented as Mitchell Zuckoff. Whew—what an utterly compelling and deeplysatisfying read!" —Simon Winchester, author of Atlantic
Award-winning former Boston Globe reporter Mitchell Zuckoffunleashes the exhilarating, untold story of an extraordinary World War IIrescue mission, where a plane crash in the South Pacific plunged a trio of U.S.military personnel into a land that time forgot. Fans of Hampton Sides’ Ghost Soldiers , Marcus Luttrell’s Lone Survivor , and David Grann’s The Lost Cityof Z will be captivated by Zuckoff’s masterfullyrecounted, all-true story of danger, daring, determination, and discovery injungle-clad New Guinea during the final days of WWII.