“A lost world man-eating tribesmen lush andimpenetrable jungles stranded American fliers (one of them a dame withgreat gams for heaven's sake) a startling rescue mission. . . . This is atrue story made in heaven for a writer as talented as Mitchell Zuckoff. Whew—what an utterly compelling and deeplysatisfying read!" —Simon Winchester author of Atlantic 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.
