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. It was an act that Franz could never mention or else face a firing squad. A Higher Call: The Incredible True Story of Heroism and Chivalry during the Second World War Kindle Edition by Adam Makos (Author) Format: Kindle Edition 9,008 ratings 4.3 on Goodreads 23,920 ratings Goodreads Choice Award nominee See all formats and editions Kindle 13.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0. Description About the Book Book Synopsis A beautiful story of a brotherhood between enemies emerges from the horrors of World War II in this New York Times. A beautiful story of a brotherhood between enemies. What happened between them, the American 8th Air Force would later classify as ‘top secret’. A Higher Call: An Incredible True Story of Combat and Chivalry in the War-Torn Skies of 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 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. A Higher Call is essentially the life story of the German fighter ace who spared the bomber, from his pre-war boyhood through his service in Africa and.

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