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Summary:

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

Author/Creator:

Zuckoff, Mitchell

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

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

Alternate Titles:

True story of survival, adventure, and the most incredible rescue mission of World War II

Subjects:

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

United States Army Air Forces — Search and rescue operations

World War, 1939-1945 — Aerial operations, American

Primitive societies — New Guinea

United States Army Air Forces

World War (1939-1945)

1939-1945

Aircraft accidents

Search and rescue operations

Missing in action

Primitive societies

Airplane crash survival

United States

New Guinea

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Physical Description:

xii, 384 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Call Numbers:

D767.95 .Z84 2011

ISBNs:

9780061988349
0061988340
9780062093585 (international ed.)
0062093584 (international ed.)

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2010034508

OCLC Numbers:

658117311