81 Days Below Zero

“A riveting . . . saga of survival against formidable odds” ( Washington Post ) about the survivor of a World War II plane crash in Alaska's Yukon territory. Shortly before Christmas in 1943, five Army aviators left Alaska's Ladd Field on a routine flight to test their hastily retrofitted B-twenty-four Liberator in harsh winter conditions. The mission ended in a crash that claimed all but one—Leon Crane, a city kid from Philadelphia with no wilderness experience. With little more than a parachut