Summary of Mitchell Zuckoff's Lost in Shangri-La

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Description

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 In May 1945, a Western Union messenger made his rounds through the quiet village of Owego, in upstate New York. He stopped at a house with a small porch and empty flower boxes. Inside, he found Patrick Hastings, a widower who had lost both his wife and his eldest daughter in the war.
#2 The first generation of women to serve in the US military was sent to war zones around the world. The military had outsourced the delivery of bad news, and its bearers had been busy: the combat death toll among Americans neared 300,000.
#3 When Owego’s newspaper learned of the telegram, Patrick Hastings told a reporter about Margaret’s most recent letter home. In it, she described a recreational flight up the New Guinea coast and wrote that she hoped to take another sightseeing trip soon.

Sujets

• Seconde Guerre mondiale
• History
• World War II
• Military
• Segunda Guerra Mundial
• Histoire

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 12 mai 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9798822507128
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on Mitchell Zuckoff's Lost in Shangri-La
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Insights from Chapter 1

#1

In May 1945, a Western Union messenger made his rounds through the quiet village of Owego, in upstate New York. He stopped at a house with a small porch and empty flower boxes. Inside, he found Patrick Hastings, a widower who had lost both his wife and his eldest daughter in the war.

#2

The first generation of women to serve in the US military was sent to war zones around the world. The military had outsourced the delivery of bad news, and its bearers had been busy: the combat death toll among Americans neared 300,000.

#3

When Owego’s newspaper learned of the telegram, Patrick Hastings told a reporter about Margaret’s most recent letter home. In it, she described a recreational flight up the New Guinea coast and wrote that she hoped to take another sightseeing trip soon.
Insights from Chapter 2

#1

Margaret Hastings, a WAC, was assigned to work in a tent with five other women. She was given men's pants that were too big for her, and she used the material to make them fit.

#2

On May 13, 1945, Germany surrendered unconditionally. Five days earlier, Adolf Hitler had killed himself in his bunker. Other Nazi leaders were in custody. The concentration camps were being liberated, their horrors exposed.

#3

The war in the Pacific was still a very ongoing struggle. On May 13, 1945, more than 130 American fighters and bombers attacked Japanese targets in southern and eastern China. Ten B-24 Liberators bombed an underground hangar on Moen Island.

#4

New Guinea was a largely unexplored tropical island roughly the size of California. Its inhabitants spoke more than one thousand languages, which was about one-sixth of the world’s total.

#5

The island of New Guinea was inhabited by humans for more than forty thousand years before it was discovered by traders seeking valuable raw materials in the nineteenth century. It was then occupied by European powers, who divided the island in half.

#6

The safety precautions at the base were actually meant to protect the WACs from more than a hundred thousand American soldiers in and around Hollandia. The soldiers didn’t care about the WACs, but they were attracted to Margaret.

#7

The WACs made their quarters as plush as possible. They furnished their twelve-foot-square canvas home with small dressing tables made from boxes and burlap. They sat on chairs donated by supply officers who hoped the gifts would translate into dates.

#8

The WACs were sent to the far reaches of the South Pacific to get thin in Guinea. The weather was hot and humid, and there was little to no refrigeration. The food was canned, salted, or dehydrated, and cooking it changed the temperature but not the flavor.

#9

The WACs’ official history singled out Base G as the worst place in the war for the health of military women: The Air Surgeon reported that ‘an increasing number of cases are on record for nervousness and exhaustion,’ and recommended that personnel be given one full day off per week to relieve ‘nervous tension.

#10

On May 13, 1945, Colonel Peter Prossen arranged for his staff to go on a rare and coveted trip: a trip to Shangri-La.
Insights from Chapter 3

#1

In May 1944, Colonel Ray T. Elsmore heard his copilot’s voice crackle through the intercom in the cramped cockpit of their C-60 transport plane. He was flying to find a place to build a landing strip between Hollandia and Merauke.

#2

Elsmore was a flying instructor during World War I, and he spent more than a decade delivering airmail through the Rocky Mountains.