Zuckoff, Mitchell.

Lost in Shangri-la : a true story of survival, adventure, and the most incredible rescue mission of World War II / Mitchell Zuckoff. - 1st ed. - New York : HarperCollins, c2011. - xii, 384 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

ISBN: 9780062093585 (tr. pbk.) 0062093584 (tr. pbk.) 9780061988356 (tr. pbk.)

LCCN: 2010034508

Subjects--Corporate Names:
United States. Army Air Forces --Search and rescue operations.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
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.

LC Class. No.: D767.95 / .Z84 2011

Dewey Class. No.: 940.54/8