Lost in Shangri La By Zuckoff Mitchell

This New York Times bestseller recounts the extraordinary true story of a U.S. military plane crash, the 'Gremlin Special,' in the uncharted 'Shangri-La' valley of Dutch New Guinea on May 13, 1945, near the end of World War II. The plane carried twenty-four people, but only three miraculously survived: WAC Corporal Margaret Hastings, Lieutenant John McCollom, and Sergeant Kenneth Decker. The injured trio was stranded in a remote, mountainous jungle valley inhabited by the Stone Age Dani tribe, who had never before seen a white person. The book details the survivors' harrowing struggle for survival against the dangers of the jungle and the threat of nearby Japanese forces, their unexpected encounter and relationship with the indigenous people, and the incredible, unprecedented rescue mission involving paratroopers and gliders to extract them from a lost world.

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