Lost in Shangri-La: a True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II, by Mitchell ZuckoffA rollicking adventure tale of the “you can’t make this stuff up” variety. True story about a US military plane crash over New Guinea during WWII and how the three survivors managed to endure for 6 weeks while the Army hatched a plan to get them out. Seriously injured, in inhospitable terrain where planes couldn’t land and helicopters couldn’t fly, surrounded by cannibalistic natives, the survivors’ eventual rescue involved the technological equivalent of a slingshot and a paper airplane. No joke.
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