**A New York Times bestseller, the extraordinary World War II mission
to rescue survivors of a U.S. military plane crash in an isolated corner
of the South Pacific, and the ancient indigenous tribe members that
aided those stranded on the ground in this "Shangri-La."
**Award-winning former Boston Globe reporter Mitchell Zuckoffunleashes
the exhilarating, untold story of an extraordinary World War IIrescue
mission, where a plane crash in the South Pacific plunged a trio of
U.S.military personnel into a land that time forgot. Fans of Hampton
Sides' Ghost Soldiers, Marcus Luttrell's Lone Survivor, and David
Grann's The Lost Cityof Z will be captivated by Zuckoff's
masterfullyrecounted, all-true story of danger, daring, determination,
and discovery injungle-clad New Guinea during the final days of WWII.