A Higher Call
The Incredible True Story of Heroism and Chivalry during the Second World War
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- Paperback
400 pages
- Release Date
23 April 2014
Summary
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 …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781782392569 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1782392564 |
| Author: | Adam Makos |
| Publisher: | Atlantic Books |
| Imprint: | Atlantic Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 400 |
| Edition: | Main |
| Release Date: | 23 April 2014 |
| Weight: | 380g |
| Dimensions: | 32mm x 130mm x 198mm |
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Critics Review
Well worth reading… A Higher Call pounds along with the all-action rhythm its genre seems to demand, but still manages to rescue the idea of German chivalry from cliché… A Higher Call is deeply felt by its author and deeply affecting to read. Apparently humans react more sentimentally to films and books consumed on aeroplanes than on the ground. I read this at 30,000ft… but I suspect it would have ambushed my emotions anywhere. – Giles Whittle * The Times *
A truly awe inspiring story of wartime chivalry – Tony Rennell * Daily Mail *
A riveting story of humanity and mercy set against the ghastly backdrop of war * Publishers Weekly *
A remarkable story… Brown and Stigler, former enemies who became friends, died within months of each other in 2008. Their story is worth retelling and celebrating. * USA Today *
Adam Makos
Adam Makos is a journalist, historian and editor of the military magazine, Valor. Makos has interviewed countless veterans from the Second World War, Korea, Vietnam, and present-day wars. In 2008 Makos travelled to Iraq to accompany the 101st Airborne and Army Special Forces on their hunt for Al Qaeda terrorists.
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.
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