A Higher Call: An Incredible True Story of Combat and Chivalry in the War-Torn Skies of World War II

ISBN-13: 9780425255735 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 400 str.

Adam Makos; Larry Alexander

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THE NEW YORK TIMES AND INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER

December, 1943: A badly damaged American bomber struggles to fly over wartime Germany. At the controls is twenty-one-year-old Second Lieutenant Charlie Brown. Half his crew lay wounded or dead on this, their first mission. Suddenly, a Messerschmitt fighter pulls up on the bomber's tail. The pilot is German ace Franz Stigler--and he can destroy the young American crew with 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."

The U.S. 8th Air Force would later classify what happened between them as "top secret." It was an act that Franz could never mention for fear of facing a firing squad. It was the encounter that would haunt both Charlie and Franz for forty years until, as old men, they would search the world for each other, a last mission that could change their lives forever.

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Praise for A Higher Call

A remarkable story...worth retelling and celebrating. USA Today

Beautifully told. CNN

A riveting story of humanity and mercy set against the ghastly backdrop of war. Publishers Weekly

Oh, it s a good one! Fox News

Deeply felt by its author and deeply affecting to read. The Times (London)

A truly awe inspiring story of wartime chivalry. Daily Mail (London)

Incredible. New York Post

Inspiring. Kirkus Reviews 

Simply told, splendid, and well worth the read. *Joe Galloway, co-author of the #1 New York Times bestseller We Were Soldiers Once...and Young 

This book grips you like a movie. It s part Top Gun, part Valkyrie, and more. Marcus Brotherton, co-author of the New York Times bestseller Tough as They Come

It is often said that war is hell and it is however, this story reveals how the human spirit can shine in the darkest hours. Colonel Charles McGee, Tuskegee Airman, WWII

A Higher Call exemplifies beautifully the brotherhood of warriors and will forever change how you look at World War II. Eric Blehm, author of the New York Times bestseller, Fearless

Can good men be found on both sides of a bad war? The author asks the question and delivers the answer. A powerful, haunting read. Chuck Tatum, author of Red Blood, Black Sand

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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, the subject of the major motion picture. Inspired by his grandfathers service, Makos chronicles the stories of American veterans in his trademark fusion of intense human drama and fast-paced military action, securing his place  in the top ranks of military writers, according to the Los Angeles Times. In the course of his research, Makos has flown a World War II bomber, accompanied a Special Forces raid in Iraq, and journeyed into North Korea in search of an MIA American airman.  


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 and columnist for the Intelligencer Journal in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, for nearly twenty years and has won numerous state-level awards for excellence in journalism.