It was the encounter that would haunt both Charlie and Franz for forty years until, as old men, they would seek out one another and reunite. A Higher Call: An Incredible True Story of Combat and Chivalry in the War-Torn Skies of World War II Adam Makos 6.59 - 24.40 Devotion: An Epic Story of Heroism, Brotherhood and Sacrifice Adam Makos 16.89 - 32.09 Spearhead: An American Tank Gunner, His Enemy, and a Collision of Lives In World War II Adam Makos 8.09 - 18. It was an act that Franz could never mention or else face a firing squad. A beautiful story of a brotherhood between enemies emerges from the horrors of World War II in this New York Times. What happened between them, the American 8th Air Force would later classify as 'top secret'. This is the true story of the two pilots whose lives collided in the skies that day - the American - 2nd Lieutenant Charlie Brown and the German - 2nd Lieutenant Franz Stigler.Ī Higher Call follows both Charlie and Franz's harrowing missions and gives a dramatic account of the moment when they would stare across the frozen skies at one another. Suddenly a German Messerschmitt fighter pulled up on the bomber's tail - the German pilot was an ace, a man able to destroy the American bomber with the squeeze of a trigger. At its controls was a twenty-one-year-old pilot. This instant Sunday Times bestseller tells the story of two fighter pilots whose remarkable encounter during the Second World War became the stuff of legend.įive days before Christmas 1943, a badly damaged American bomber struggled to fly over wartime Germany.
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