Lost in Shangri-la: A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II

Name: Lost in Shangri-la: A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II
Rating: 3.8 (27776 reviews)
Author: Mitchell Zuckoff

by Mitchell Zuckoff

First published: 2011

★★★★☆3.8(27,776 ratings)

Genres & Subjects

United States Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks Search and rescue operations World War, 1939-1945 American Aerial operations Primitive societies Missing in action United States. Army Air Forces Aircraft accidents nyt:e-book_nonfiction=2011-04-23 Airplane crash survival nyt:hardcover_political_books=2011-08-27

About This Book

Describes the 1945 odyssey of three plane crash survivors in New Guinea who endured a harrowing journey through the jungle to seek help, their encounter with a primitive tribe who had never seen white people, and their eventual rescue by a band of paratroopers.