A review by blevins
Frozen in Time: An Epic Story of Survival and a Modern Quest for Lost Heroes of World War II by Mitchell Zuckoff

4.0

Mitchell Zuckoff's Frozen in Time is often riveting with suspense, tension and brutal descriptions of what it was like to try to survive crash landing in the icy tundra of Greenland during WW2 for some unlucky soldiers. The best parts of the book are the sections set in the past as fellow soldiers desperately try to get food to the men and ultimately rescue them. The less successful sections of the book are the ones set in the current as Zuckoff follows an attempt to get the crashed planes & bodies of the dead airmen out of the 40 foot layer of ice. Some of that is interesting but much of that blends together and becomes repetitive. Four stars for the gripping, hard to believe trauma, resiliency and self-sacrifice of the men. I want no part of being stuck on Greenland's ice cap with little supplies and no shelter.