A Higher Call
The Incredible True Story of Heroism and Chivalry during the Second World War
Makos, Adam - Alexander, Larry
First UK Edition. First Printing. Five days before Christmas 1943, a badly damaged Allied bomber struggled to fly over wartime Germany. At ist controls was a twenty-one-year-old American pilot. Half his crew lay wounded or dead. Suddenly a Messerschmitt fighter pulled up on the bomber's tail - the German pilot was an ace, who with a squeeze of the trigger could bring down the struggling bomber. This is the incredible true story of 2nd Lieutenant Charlie Brown and 2nd Lieutenant Franz Stigler, the two pilots whose lives collided in the skies that day. A Higher Call follows their harrowing missions and gives a dramatic account of the moment when they would stare across the skies at one another. What happened between them would later be classified by the US airforce as top secret. It was an act that, if revealed, could have meant the firing squad for Franz. It was the encounter that would haunt both pilots for forty years until, as old men, they would seek out one another and reunite. lADAM MAKOS is a Journalist, historian and editor of the military magazine Valor. Makos has interviewed countless veterans from the Second World War, Korea, Vietnam and present-day wars. In 2008 Makos travelled to Iraq to accompany the 101st Airborne and Army Special Forces on their hunt for AI Qaeda terrorists. LARRY ALEXANDER is the author of the New York Times bestselling biography Biggest Brother: The Life of Major Dick Winters, the Man Who Led the Band of Brothers. He is also the author of Shadows In the Jungle: The Alamo Seouls Behind Japanese Lines in World War II and In the Footsteps of the Band of Brothers: A Return to Easy Company's Battlefields With Sgt. Forrest Guth.
hardcover with dust jacket
392 Seiten / pages
photos
very good condition
London - 2009 - Atlantic Books
Art.Nr. 26169
