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

by **Adam Makos** (Author), **Larry Alexander** (Author)

****THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER: "Beautifully told."_\--CNN **\-**_ "A remarkable story...worth retelling and celebrating."--_USA Today **\-**_ "Oh, it's a good one!"_\--Fox News_****

A "beautiful story of a brotherhood between enemies" emerges from the horrors of World War II in this _New York Times_ bestseller by the author of _Devotion_, now a Major Motion Picture.  
_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.

### Author Biography

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.

**Number of Pages:** 400

**Dimensions:** 1.4 x 9.1 x 6.2 IN

**Illustrated:** Yes

**Publication Date:** December 19, 2012

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