Zuckoff, Mitchell.

Lost in Shangri-la : a true story of survival, adventure, and the most incredible rescue mission of World War II / True story of survival, adventure, and the most incredible rescue mission of World War II Mitchell Zuckoff. - New York : HarperCollins, c2011. - xii, 384 pages. : illustration ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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

9780061988349 0061988340 9780062093585 (international ed.) 0062093584 (international ed.)

2010034508


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.
Prehistoric peoples--New Guinea.

D 767.95 Z84 2011