Frozen in Time

Frozen in Time (2013) by Mitchell Zuckoff. In 1942, an American cargo plane crashed on Greenland. A B-17, sent out to search for survivors, also crashed into the ice. Miraculously, the men aboard these planes survived the crashes, only to face the prospect of dying in the Greenland winter. Several rescue missions were launched, and several men on the rescue missions were killed in the attempt. This book is billed as "An epic story of survival and a modern quest for lost heroes of World War II." But it struck me more as an epic story of the futility of trying to challenge Greenland with 1940s technology. It was a grueling book to read, and even though many of the men in the crashed planes were rescued, many were lost. It's a good book, but does not live up to Zuckoff's previous effort, Lost in Shangri-La. Grade: B+