He calls it straight and does not avoid assigning blame or pointing out hypocrisy and well intentioned stupidity. Zuckoff’s story flies around to take into account everything from the valley, to the base, to the Homefront. Survivor, media icon, and pain in the ass. Margaret Hastings who at various points is a damsel in distress, badass Psyche and also doesn’t shy away from their flaws either. To the reader because Zuckoff gives you the facts you need to understand their Well as he does for the home of the indigenous tribes. Sense of the New Guinea military base and the people who inhabit it just as Second, he also uses tribesmen or their descendants who were still alive to answer questions and add flourishes to the story. First, he relies on his primary sources which were luckily kept by the survivors of the crash. This is a pretty fun book because Zuckoff does quite a few things really well to stitch this story together. Zuckoff makes some hilarious corrections of the diaries at the time to show the contrast between what the Americans thought the tribesmen were doing and what they were actually doing. The indigenous people in the area where the plane crashed were (almost) untouched by civilization until this incident. Fun Fact Non-History People Will Like:Ī drunk guy parachutes out of a plane. The survivors of the crash are caught in a valley which will require an ingenious exit strategy. Story of an airplane crash during World War II in New Guinea. Wait until you get to the unneeded male nudity. Brendan’s Alternate Tagline for Lost in Shangri-La:
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