Lost in Shangri-la : a true story of survival, adventure, and the most incredible rescue mission of World War II / Mitchell Zuckoff.

Title:

ISBN:

9780061988349

Personal Author:

Zuckoff, Mitchell

Edition:

First edition.

Publication Information:

New York : HarperCollins, [2011]

Physical Description:

xii, 384 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Summary:

Award-winning former Boston Globe reporter Mitchell Zuckoff chronicles the untold story of an extraordinary World War II rescue mission, in which a plane crash in the South Pacific plunged a trio of U.S. military personnel into the jungle-clad land of New Guinea.

Corporate Subject:

United States. Army Air Forces -- Search and rescue operations

Subject Term:

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

Indigenous peoples--New Guinea

Genre:

True adventure stories