My second February pick for my A-Z reading challenge and I finished it in March. It was a fast read, but it was very dated. It is about a plane crash in Dutch New Guinea during World War 2. Twenty Seven passengers all went down and only 3 survived. Two men and a female soldier. They landed in a valley that was named Shangri-La by the pilots that flew in it and it was not documented on the map at the time.
The three survivors had to wait a week before being found and then a unit of Filipino- American paratroopers was given the mission to go in for medical and protect from the natives who were thought to be cannibalistic head hunters.
The natives were often referred to as savages which makes this dated and how discriminate the white soldiers were of natives. This was a quick read and it had a lot of pictures to go along with what was written, but I sometimes found myself getting confused when other people who weren't the survivors were being described and their family history being included which had nothing to do with the rescue of these three soldiers at all.
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