Lost in Shangri-la : a true story of survival, adventure, and the most incredible rescue mission of World War II
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TextPublication details: New York : HarperCollins, c2011.Edition: 1st edDescription: xii, 384 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN: - 9780061988349
- 0061988340
- 9780062093585 (international ed.)
- 0062093584 (international ed.)
- True story of survival, adventure, and the most incredible rescue mission of World War II [Portion of title]
- 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
- Primitive societies -- New Guinea
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Missing in action -- New Guinea
- Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc. -- New Guinea
- Aircraft accidents -- New Guinea
- Rescue work -- New Guinea
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations
- Primitive societies -- New Guinea
- 940.54/8 22
- D767.95 .Z84 2011
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Machine generated contents note: 1.Missing -- 2.Hollandia -- 3.Shangri-La -- 4.Gremlin Special -- 5.Eureka! -- 6.Charms -- 7.Tarzan -- 8.Gentleman Explorer -- 9.Guilt and Gangrene -- 10.Earl Walter, Junior and Senior -- 11.Uwambo -- 12.Wimayuk Wandik, aka "Chief Pete" -- 13.Come What May -- 14.Five-by-Five -- 15.No Thanksgiving -- 16.Rammy and Doc -- 17.Custer and Company -- 18.Bathtime for Yugwe -- 19."Shoo, Shoo Baby" -- 20."Hey, Martha!" -- 21.Promised Land -- 22.Hollywood -- 23.Gliders? -- 24.Two Queens -- 25.Snatch.
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
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