On November 5, 1942, a U.S. cargo plane on a routine flight slammed into the Greenland ice cap. Four days later, the B-17 assigned to the search-and-rescue mission hit thick fog and also crashed. Miraculously, x men on the B-17 survived. With the weather worsening, the U.S. military launched one last daring rescue mission, sending a Grumman Duck amphibious plane to find the men. Flying into a severe storm, the Duck and its Coast Guard crew vanished.
 
In this thrilling true-life adventure, Mitchell Zuckoff offers a spellbinding account of these harrowing crashes and the fate of the survivors and their would-be saviors. Full of evocative detail, Frozen in Time brings their extraordinary ordeal vividly into focus—a fight to stay alive and sane through 148 days of a brutal Arctic winter. Zuckoff takes us deep into the most hostile environment on earth and into the snow caves and tail section of the broken B-17 where the soldiers took refuge from subzero te