from stephaniechase

Readers who enjoyed the survival aspect of Lauren Hillenbrand's "Unbroken" will also find much to like in this survival story from WWII, focusing on three survivors of a plane crash deep in the mountains of New Guinea. "Lost in Shangri-La" looks at aviation in WWII, life in military outposts in t...

from bookchickdi

I don't read a lot of WWII history books, but when I heard that Lost in Shangri-La: The True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II by Mitchell Zuckoff featured a WAC from Owego, I became intrigued. I grew up near Owego in central New York, and my dad...

from msf59

Cannibals, penis gourds and WACs, oh my! One afternoon in May 1945, a group of military sight-seers, board a transport plane, called the Gremlin Special, for a leisurely fly-over of a beautiful valley nicknamed Shangri-La, located on the island of Dutch New Guinea. There were 24 on board, a mix o...

from arielfl

I love a good adventure story. The gold standard by which I hold all other adventure stories to is Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer. Unfortunately for this book I happened to be listening to that novel on CD at the same time and so Lost in Shagri-La paled in comparison. Lost in Shagri-La is the true...

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I give Mitchell Zuckoff credit for turning this brief historical event in the final days of WWII into a book-length creative non-fiction thriller. I kept waiting for an amazing story of survival and rescue, per the title, which is not really the case, but it didn't matter because the telling is f...