Lost in Shangri-la : a true story of survival, adventure, and the most incredible rescue mission of World War II
Title:
Lost in Shangri-la : a true story of survival, adventure, and the most incredible rescue mission of World War II
Author:
Zuckoff, Mitchell
ISBN:
9780061988349
Publication Information:
New York : HarperCollins, 2011
Physical Description:
xii, 384 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
General Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Abstract:
Award-winning former Boston Globe reporter Mitchell Zuckoff unleashes the exhilarating, untold story of an extraordinary World War II rescue mission, where a plane crash in the South Pacific plunged a trio of U.S. military personnel into the jungle-clad land of New Guinea
Subject Term:
Subject:
| United States. Army Air Forces -- Search and rescue operations |
| World War, 1939-1945 -- Missing in action -- New Guinea |
| Airplane crash survival -- New Guinea |
| Aircraft accidents -- New Guinea |
| World War, 1939-1945 -- Search and rescue operations -- New Guinea |
| World War, 1939-1945 -- Search and rescue operations -- United States |
| World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, American |
| Primitive societies -- New Guinea |
Summary:
Award-winning former Boston Globe reporter Mitchell Zuckoff unleashes the exhilarating, untold story of an extraordinary World War II rescue mission, where a plane crash in the South Pacific plunged a trio of U.S. military personnel into the jungle-clad land of New Guinea