A Higher Call: An Incredible True Story of Combat

A Higher Call

Genre : Biographies,Memoirs

Subjects : German Aerial operations, Bomber pilots, Aerial Bombing, American Aerial operations, World War, 1939-1945, Fighter pilots, Biography, History
Issue : 18/12/2012
Editor :
Publisher : Berkley Hardcover
Format : Hardcover
Pages : 400
Dimensions : 9.10 x 6.20 x 1.50 in
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.
A Higher Call: An Incredible True Story of Combat
ww2 books
WW2 PEARL HARBOR AND THE USS ARIZONA MEMORIAL A PICTORIAL HISTORY BOOK HAWAII
16.53
ww2 books
The Second World War in 100 Objects by Julian Thompson Hardcover WW2 © 2012
10.71
ww2 books
German Night Fighter Aces of World War 2, Aircraft of The Aces 1999 Jerry Scutts
8.99
ww2 books
USN WW2 Net Layers AN-1 thru AN-4 NAVSHIPS 347-0418 Instruction Main Feed Pump
33.17
ww2 books
HSWW 83 WW2 RHINE CROSSING_DUKW_RUSSIAN ARMY AT THE GATES OF BERLIN VOLKSTRUM
9.95
ww2 books
WW2 Replica Ration Book, Evacuee Tag and Identity Card by Memorabilia Pack
7.26
ww2 books
Vintage Children’s Book Little Lost Lamb World War 2 Era 1st Edition 1945 Rare
7.25
ww2 books
Berlino 1945 ww2 the last battle in Berlin Italian Edition
37.36
ww2 books
Frontline Illustrations series FRI-047 T-34 Soviet WW2 Medium Tank of Stalingrad
44.95
ww2 books
WW2 GERMAN 6TH SS MOUNTAIN DIVISION NORD AT WAR 1941-1945 FINLAND RUSSIA ARCTIC
19.96
ww2 books
WW2 GERMAN LIGHT TANKS BLITZKRIEG POLAND FRANCE BALKANS EASTERN FRONT RUSSIA Pz.
19.96
ww2 books
United States Navel Flight School 1943 Platoon Book Liberty MO Class Signed WW2
79.99
ww2 books
Flying The Weather July 1943 U.S. NAVY AERONAUTICS TRAINING BOOK WW2 Weather Map
3.99
ww2 books
Gallipoli A Short History Michael Mckernan Paperback Military World War 2 Book
13.21
ww2 books
Ascalon by Jerrard Tickell WW2 Winston Churchill 1943-45 (1964) PB Hodder
39.34
ww2 books
ww2 scrapbook set 6 books
720.0
ww2 books
IWO JIMA THE WAY IT WAS LT. A.B. SPARKS MEMOIR 1942 WORLD WAR 2 UNPUBLISHED
79.99
ww2 books
Destroyer Weapons Of World War 2 by Peter Hodges 1979 Hardcover
20.38
ww2 books
THE PROMISE: A WORLD WAR 2 HISTORICAL ROMANCE NOVEL By Kathleen Harryman & Lucy
25.49
ww2 books
WW2 HISTORY BOOK HIGHWAYS IN THE SKY THE STORY OF THE AACS BY MAJOR LOUIS SHORES
33.96
ww2 books
Notable Service to the Empire Australian Corvettes and British Pacific Fleet WW2
25.12
ww2 books
WW2 Era Science and Engineering Books - World War 2 Memorabilia, US Military an
50.0
ww2 books
WW1 WW2 HISTORY BOOK THEY ALSO FLEW ENLISTED PILOTS LEGACY BY LEE ARBON BOOK
12.71
ww2 books
WW2 HISTORY BOOK SEGREGATED SKIES ALL BLACK COMBAT SQUADRONS BY STANLEY SANDLER
8.46

About the Author

Adam Makos is a journalist, historian, and editor of the military magazine, Valor. In his fifteen years of work in the military field, Makos has interviewed countless veterans from WWII, Korea, Vietnam, and present-day wars. He has flown a B-17 bomber, a T-38 fighter with the Air Force, and was one of the few journalists privileged to examine Air Force One with its pilots. In pursuit of a story, Makos met Presidents, had tea with Prince Charles, and toured the DMZ border in Korea with American troops. The high point of his work occurred in 2008, when Makos traveled to Iraq to accompany the 101st Airborne and Army Special Forces on their hunt for Al Qaeda terrorists.
Larry Alexander is the author of the New York Times bestselling biography Biggest Brother: The Life of Major Dick Winters, the Man Who Led the Band of Brothers. He is also the author of Shadows In the Jungle: The Alamo Scouts Behind Japanese Lines in World War II and In the Footsteps of the Band of Brothers: A Return to Easy Company’s Battlefields With Sgt. Forrest Guth. Alexander has been a journalist/columnist for the Intelligencer Journal newspaper in Lancaster, Pennsylvania for more than thirteen years and has won numerous state-level awards for excellence in journalism.
Posted in .

Leave a reply

<a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <s> <strike> <strong> 

required

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.