Lost in Shangri-La by Mitchell Zuckoff
We has seen a number of excellent books over the past few years that tell amazing survival stories from World War 2. The gold standard (and one of the best books ever) is Unbroken. Lost in Shangri-La, however, is not far behind. The story is centered around the crash of an airplane caring some soldiers on a relaxing site seeing trip in New Guinea. The crash happened near an extremely remote and unknown valley that was called Shangri-La by some early reporters. The method used to rescue the survivors is simply amazing...I never would have thought that it could possibly work. I think this book is unique among World War 2 books in that the enemy is almost never mentioned, and certainly never appears in the actual story. A very, very enjoyable book. Grade: A-
