یک فراخوان بالاتر: داستان واقعی شگفت‌انگیز از قهرمانی و شجاعت در طول جنگ جهانی دوم

Shipped from UK, please allow 10 to 21 business days for arrival. Very Good, Ed. Later Printing of First Edition. A very good copy in blue cloth boards, with a very good dust jacket. This instant Sunday Times bestseller tells the story of two fighter pilots whose remarkable encounter during World War II became the stuff of legend. Five days before Christmas 1943, a badly damaged American bomber struggled to fly over wartime Germany. At its controls was a twenty-one-year-old pilot. Half his crew lay wounded or dead. 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. 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. A 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. 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 seek out one another and reunite. Author biography Title page Copyright page Dedication page Contents INTRODUCTION 1. A Stranger in My Own Land 2. Follow the Eagles 3. A Feather in the Wind 4. Fire Free 5. The Desert Amusement Park 6. The Stars of Africa 7. The Homecoming 8. Welcome to Olympus 9. The Unseen Hand 10. The Berlin Bear 11. The Farm Boy 12. The Quiet Ones 13. The Lives of Nine 14. The Boxer 15. A Higher Call 16. The Third Pilot 17. Pride 18. Stick Close to Me 19. The Downfall 20. The Flying Sanatorium 21. We Are the Air Force 22. The Squadron of Experts 23. The Last of the German Fighter Pilots 24. Where Bombs Had Fallen 25. Was It Worth It? AFTERWORD ACKNOWLEDGMENTS TO LEARN MORE NOTES BIBLIOGRAPHY List of Illustrations The true story of two pilots whose lives collided in the skies over wartime Germany on December 21, 1943: an American--2nd Lieutenant Charlie Brown, a former farm boy from West Virginia who came to captain a B-17, and a German--2nd Lieutenant Franz Stigler, a former airline pilot from Bavaria who sought to avoid fighting in World War II This instant New York Times bestseller tells the story of two fighter pilots, an American and a German, whose remarkable encounter during World War II became the stuff of legend. This instant Sunday Times bestseller tells the story of two fighter pilots, an American and a German, whose remarkable encounter during World War II became the stuff of legend