Adam Makos
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| Original Title: | A Higher Call: An Incredible True Story of Combat and Chivalry in the War-Torn Skies of World War II |
| ISBN: | 0425252868 (ISBN13: 9780425252864) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Literary Awards: | Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for History & Biography (2013) |
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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 bomber’s tail—a 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 day—the American—2nd Lieutenant Charlie Brown, a former farm boy from West Virginia who came to captain a B-17—and the German—2nd 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 Franz’s 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 sea, and the spectacle of 1,000 bombers each with eleven guns, waiting for his attack. Ultimately, Charlie and Franz would stare across the frozen skies at one another. What happened between them, the American 8th Air Force would later classify as “top secret.” It was an act that Franz could never mention or else face a firing squad. It was the encounter that would haunt both Charlie and Franz for forty years until, as old men, they would search for one another, a last mission that could change their lives forever.
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| Title | : | A Higher Call: An Incredible True Story of Combat and Chivalry in the War-Torn Skies of World War II |
| Author | : | Adam Makos |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 392 pages |
| Published | : | December 19th 2012 by Berkley |
| Categories | : | History. Nonfiction. War. World War II. Biography. Military Fiction |
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Ratings: 4.38 From 15817 Users | 1833 ReviewsAppraise Out Of Books A Higher Call: An Incredible True Story of Combat and Chivalry in the War-Torn Skies of World War II
A tribute to all airmen. An absolutely brilliant work! I cannot say enough of this true World War Two account of Franz Stigler and Charlie Brown. Ive read many accounts where soldiers from both sides would come to meet one another during a lull in the action. There are countless stories of this occurring in World War I and II. Many of them occur around Christmas when its Good will towards men.But none of the stories compare to this one.Charleys B-17 has been riddled with bullets, flak and cannonI am an avid reader of WWII sweeping histories, personal stories, events. etc. This book, A Higher Call, is one of the best, in my opinion. I lived in Germany for 2 1/2 years in the early 1960's, being a missionary there for the LDS Church. That experience whetted my life long obsession with all aspects of the war, partially started by the Nazi's under Hitler. This true story recounts the acts of a german fighter pilot who endangered himself by shepherded a horribly damaged B17 out of Germany
I am an avid reader of WWII sweeping histories, personal stories, events. etc. This book, A Higher Call, is one of the best, in my opinion. I lived in Germany for 2 1/2 years in the early 1960's, being a missionary there for the LDS Church. That experience whetted my life long obsession with all aspects of the war, partially started by the Nazi's under Hitler. This true story recounts the acts of a german fighter pilot who endangered himself by shepherded a horribly damaged B17 out of Germany
A Higher Call is mostly the story of Franz Stigler, an ace WWII German fighter pilot who came upon a heavily damaged and helpless American B-17 bomber struggling to return to England. Stigler could have easily shot the bomber down, but instead he escorted them past an anti-aircraft battery and flew along side them for a while out over the North Sea. Stigler knew he would be court-martialed if anyone found out what he had done. For years he wondered if the bomber had made it home safely and he
Wow - what an amazing story! This book tells the story of a German fighter pilot and an American bomber pilot that had a brief encounter in the skies over Germany during WWII. The author's extensive research fills in the details and the book is told primarily from the perspective of the German fighter pilot. The author's forward addresses this; he was initially reluctant to interview the enemy but changed his tune after meeting Franz Stigler (Stigler set him straight on their first visit that he
I just completed reading Adam Makos' A Higher Call and I can only say I was absolutely stunned after finishing its final page. I sat quietly for several minutes, staring at the book and flipping through it looking at its pictures again, trying to come to grips with what I had just read. It is a more emotional book than I imagined it would be.Adam has written a stunning, eye-opening, and breathtaking story of the lives of WWII pilots from both sides of the European Theater, and I dare say his is
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