Lost in Shangri-la

By Mitchell Zuckoff

Subjects: World War (1939-1945) fast (OCoLC)fst01180924, Search and rescue operations, World war, 1939-1945, pacific area, Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc., nyt:hardcover_political_books=2011-08-27, New York Times bestseller, World war, 1939-1945, aerial operations, american, World War, 1939-1945, Aircraft accidents, Missing in action, Aerial Military operations, United states, army air forces, Survival, Primitive societies, Armed Forces, United States, nyt:e-book_nonfiction=2011-04-23, United States. Army Air Forces, American, American Aerial operations, Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, Airplane crash survival, New guinea, history

Description: 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.