A Higher Call: An Incredible True Story of Combat and Chivalry in the War-Torn Skies of World War II
THE NEW YORK TIMES AND INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER 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...
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THE NEW YORK TIMES AND INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER 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 Stiglerand 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. INCLUDES PHOTOS
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780425255735 (0425255735)
ASIN: 425255735
Publish date: May 6th 2014
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 400
Edition language: English
This is a great book - a true story that restores faith in human nature as an ace German fighter pilot,risking being shot for treason, refuses to shoot down an already badly damaged Allied bomber - and actually protects the injured crew, leading them through the German Flak defences - it also shows ...
This unusual book tells the story of World War II, from the perspective of a German hero, Franz Stigler, a boy who once wanted to become a priest but whose love of flying led him, instead, to become a fighter pilot, a flying ace, whose act of mercy saved the life of an American soldier. He never joi...
This unusual book tells the story of World War II, from the perspective of a German hero, Franz Stigler, a boy who once wanted to become a priest but whose love of flying led him, instead, to become a fighter pilot, a flying ace, whose act of mercy saved the life of an American soldier. He never joi...
Read my full review: http://bit.ly/164NEslMy opinion: If Hollywood doesn't pick this up movie rights to this book they are even bigger fools than what I think they are.This book was fantastic on so many levels. First off, the writing was simply flawless. It was a smooth, for the topic, as a fine cog...
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