Lost in Shangri-La by Mitchell Zuckoff

November 22, 2019 by Christina

Nonfiction – eBook. HarperCollins, 2011. 432 pgs. Purchased. Subtitled “A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II”, Mitchell’s book recounts the 1945 effort to rescue an Army officer, a Women’s Army Corps officer, and an enlisted soldier after their plane crashed in present-day Papua, the Indonesian part of the island of New Guinea. The two men and one woman were on board the C-47 plane along with 21 others for a sightseeing […]

Categories: 2019 Reads, Indigenious Peoples, Nonfiction, Oceania • Tags: Mitchell Zuckoff