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Higher Call : The Incredible True Story Of Heroism And Chivalry During The Second World War
Paperback Edition: 1/2014
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.
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Pages : 400
Publication date : 2014-05-01
Publisher : Atlantic Books
Subjects: Non-fiction, Humanities, History, Politics, Second World War, Air Forces & Warfare