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Four days before Christmas 1943, a badly damaged American bomber struggled to fly over wartime Germany. At its controls was a 21-year-old pilot. Half his crew lay wounded or dead. It was their first mission. Suddenly, a sleek, dark shape pulled up on the bombers taila German Messerschmitt fighter. Worse, the German pilot was an ace, a man able to destroy the American bomber in 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.__ This is the true story of the two pilots whose lives collided in the skies that daythe American2nd Lieutenant Charlie Brown, a former farm boy from West Virginia who came to captain a B-17and the German2nd Lieutenant Franz Stigler, a former airline pilot from Bavaria who sought to avoid fighting in World War II. __A Higher Call__ follows both Charlie and Franzs harrowing missions. Charlie would face takeoffs in English fog over the flaming wreckage of his buddies planes, flak bursts so close they would light his cockpit, and packs of enemy fighters that would circle his plane like sharks. Franz would face sandstorms in the desert, a crash alone at s

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Author
Adam Makos with Larry Alexander
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Published
2012
Language
EN
ISBN
9781101618950
Category
history
Subjects
Memoir, Historical Fiction, Fiction
Rating
4.32 / 5 (9,269 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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