更高的呼唤:一个令人难以置信的真实战斗故事

更高的呼唤

类型 : 传记,回忆录

科目: 德国空中作战,轰炸机飞行员,空中轰炸,美国空中作战,世界大战,1939-1945,战斗机飞行员,传记,历史
问题: 18/12/2012
编辑 器:
出版商: 伯克利精装本
格式: 精装
页面: 400
尺寸: 9.10 x 6.20 x 1.50 英寸
伊斯BN-10 : 9780425252864
阿辛 : 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.
更高的呼唤:一个令人难以置信的真实战斗故事

关于作者

亚当·马科斯 是记者,历史学家和军事杂志的编辑, 勇气.在他十五年的军事领域工作中,Makos采访了无数来自二战,朝鲜半岛,越南和当今战争的退伍军人。他驾驶过一架B-17轰炸机,一架T-38战斗机,并且是少数有幸与飞行员一起检查空军一号的记者之一。为了追寻故事,马科斯会见了总统,与查尔斯王子共进茶,并与美军一起游览了朝鲜的非军事区边境。他工作的高潮发生在2008年,当时Makos前往伊拉克,陪同第101空降和陆军特种部队追捕基地组织恐怖分子。
拉里·亚历山大纽约时报 畅销传记 最大兄弟:迪克·温特斯少校的一生,领导兄弟乐队的人.他也是 丛林中的阴影:第二次世界大战中日本防线后面的阿拉莫侦察兵 和跟随兄弟乐队的脚步:与福里斯特·古斯中士一起回归轻松公司的战场.亚历山大一直是记者/专栏作家 情报员杂志 在宾夕法尼亚州兰开斯特的报纸超过十三年,并赢得了许多州级的卓越新闻奖。
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