
A Higher Call
An Incredible True Story of Combat and Chivalry in the War-Torn Skies of World War II
Dutton Caliber (Publisher)
Published on 6. May 2014
Book
Paperback/Softback
400 pages
978-0-425-25573-5 (ISBN)
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THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER: "Beautifully told."-CNN • "A remarkable story...worth retelling and celebrating."-USA Today • "Oh, it's a good one!"-Fox News
A "beautiful story of a brotherhood between enemies" emerges from the horrors of World War II in this New York Times bestseller by the author of Spearhead.
December, 1943: A badly damaged American bomber struggles to fly over wartime Germany. At the controls is twenty-one-year-old Second Lieutenant Charlie Brown. Half his crew lay wounded or dead on this, their first mission. Suddenly, a Messerschmitt fighter pulls up on the bomber's tail. The pilot is German ace Franz Stigler-and he can destroy the young American crew with the squeeze of a trigger...
What happened next would defy imagination and later be called "the most incredible encounter between enemies in World War II."
The U.S. 8th Air Force would later classify what happened between them as "top secret." It was an act that Franz could never mention for fear of facing a firing squad. It was the encounter that would haunt both Charlie and Franz for forty years until, as old men, they would search the world for each other, a last mission that could change their lives forever.
A "beautiful story of a brotherhood between enemies" emerges from the horrors of World War II in this New York Times bestseller by the author of Spearhead.
December, 1943: A badly damaged American bomber struggles to fly over wartime Germany. At the controls is twenty-one-year-old Second Lieutenant Charlie Brown. Half his crew lay wounded or dead on this, their first mission. Suddenly, a Messerschmitt fighter pulls up on the bomber's tail. The pilot is German ace Franz Stigler-and he can destroy the young American crew with the squeeze of a trigger...
What happened next would defy imagination and later be called "the most incredible encounter between enemies in World War II."
The U.S. 8th Air Force would later classify what happened between them as "top secret." It was an act that Franz could never mention for fear of facing a firing squad. It was the encounter that would haunt both Charlie and Franz for forty years until, as old men, they would search the world for each other, a last mission that could change their lives forever.
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Language
English
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Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 228 mm
Width: 153 mm
Thickness: 32 mm
Weight
448 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-425-25573-5 (9780425255735)
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Adam Makos | Larry Alexander
A Higher Call
An Incredible True Story of Combat and Chivalry in the War-Torn Skies of World War II
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12/2012
Dutton Caliber
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Larry Alexander | Adam Makos
A Higher Call
An Incredible True Story of Combat and Chivalry in the War Torn Skies of World War II
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12/2012
Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.
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