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Lost in Shangri-La: A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II
Mitchell Zuckoff
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Hardcover, 400 pages; 2011
$26.99
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At the moment, though, Margaret wasn't thinking about the moral and practical relativity of modern and traditional warfare. She stared at the men with the stone-and-wood axes, their dark skin glistening from a coating of pig grease. As she waited for orders from McCollom, a thought ran through her mind: how awful to have survived a plane crash only to end up in a native stew.
On May 13, 1945, a C-47 airplane plowed into a mountainside on the island of Dutch New Guinea. Of the twenty-four U.S. servicemen and -women aboard, only three--two men and a Women's Army Corps member--survived the fiery crash. The survivors were seriously injured and short on food, water, and medical supplies. To make matters worse, the uncharted valley in which they were stranded was surrounded by warring tribes of natives who, to the best of the Americans' knowledge, had never before laid eyes on a white man--let alone a white woman. Journalist Mitchell Zuckhoff draws from interviews, military documents, and a survivor's diary to tell this thrilling true story of survival, courage, and unexpected friendship in the face of staggering odds.
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