Reviews for Lost in Tibet: The Untold Story of Five American Airmen, a Doomed Plane, and the Will to Survive

The average rating for Lost in Tibet: The Untold Story of Five American Airmen, a Doomed Plane, and the Will to Survive based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2018-01-09 00:00:00 Matthieu Tardif I got this book as background for a book we are writing about botanical explorers in Tibet. It happens that one of the people we are writing about met the five airmen whose story is told here in Lhasa. I thought there might be a paragraph or so to help flesh out the background of our story, but it turns out to be just the sort of adventure tale I love, and to provide several paragraphs for our project. The adventure story is interwoven with thorough but by no means boring back story about the history of Tibet and its turbulent political relationship with its neighbours. Deserves to be made into a film.

Review # 2 was written on 2014-09-13 00:00:00 Ian Hulsey A good balance of an adventure story with just enough historical facts thrown in to ground it, "Lost In Tibet" is the true tale of how five American fighter pilots unexpectedly found themselves in a Tibet village where they were treated decently enough but also weren't allowed to leave by the Tibetan government until an investigation cleared them of being Chinese spies. My only complaint of the work is that it ends very abruptly. Usually as you're reading you can feel a winding down. This does not happen here. Suddenly they're just free with only a paragraph here or there on what happened to the five in the aftermath.