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. What happened between them, the American 8th Air Force would later classify as 'top secret'. 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. Makos has interviewed countless veterans from the Second World War, Korea. 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. Adam Makos is a journalist, historian and editor of the military magazine, Valor. 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. Hailed as a masterful storyteller by the Associated Press, Adam Makos is the author of the New York Times bestsellers A Higher Call, Spearhead, and Devotion.
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