En høyere samtale: En utrolig sann historie om kamp

En høyere samtale

Sjanger: Biografier, Memoirs

Emner: Tyske luftoperasjoner, Bombeflypiloter, Luftbombing, Amerikanske luftoperasjoner, Verdenskrig, 1939-1945, Jagerflygere, Biografi, Historie
Utstede: 18/12/2012
Redaktør:
Forlag: Berkley Innbundet
Format: Innbundet
Sider: 400
Dimensjoner: 9,10 x 6,20 x 1,50 tommer
ISBN-10 : 9780425252864
ASIN: 0425252868
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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Adam Makos er journalist, historiker og redaktør av militærmagasinet, Tapperhet. I sine femten års arbeid på det militære feltet har Makos intervjuet utallige veteraner fra andre verdenskrig, Korea, Vietnam og dagens kriger. Han har fløyet et B-17 bombefly, et T-38 jagerfly med Luftforsvaret, og var en av de få journalistene som hadde det privilegium å undersøke Air Force One med sine piloter. I jakten på en historie møtte Makos presidenter, spiste te med prins Charles og turnerte DMZ-grensen i Korea med amerikanske tropper. Høydepunktet i hans arbeid skjedde i 2008, da Makos reiste til Irak for å følge 101st Airborne og Army Special Forces på deres jakt på Al Qaida-terrorister.
Larry Alexander er forfatter av New York Times Bestselgende biografi Største bror: Livet til major Dick Winters, mannen som ledet bandet av brødre. Han er også forfatter av Skygger i jungelen: Alamo-speiderne bak japanske linjer under andre verdenskrig og I fotsporene til Band of Brothers: A Return to Easy Company's Battlefields med Sgt. Forrest Guth. Alexander har vært journalist/spaltist for Intelligencer Journal avis i Lancaster, Pennsylvania i mer enn tretten år og har vunnet en rekke priser på statsnivå for fremragende journalistikk.
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