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A “beautiful story of a brotherhood between enemies” emerges from the horrors of World War II in this
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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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“A remarkable story...worth retelling and celebrating.”—
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“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.”
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“A truly awe inspiring story of wartime chivalry.”
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“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
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Adam Makos is the author of the New York Times and international bestseller A Higher Call. In his sixteen years of work as a journalist in the military field, Makos has interviewed countless veterans from World War II, Korea, Vietnam, and present-day wars. In pursuit of a story, Makos has met with presidents, had tea with Prince Charles, accompanied a Special Forces raid in Iraq, and organized an expedition into North Korea in search of an MIA American serviceman. A native of Pennsylvania, he currently lives in Denver, Colorado.

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.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Dutton Caliber; Reprint edition (May 6, 2014)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 400 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0425255735
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0425255735
  • Reading age ‏ : ‎ 18 years and up
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.1 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.94 x 1.13 x 8.99 inches
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Customers find the story moving and fascinating. They appreciate the well-documented tale of bravery during a brutal war. The stories of these two pilots are captivating and riveting. Readers find the complex intertwining of lives compelling and suspenseful. Overall, it's a great background novel for these two men and their lives leading up to the war.

"...Coincidentally, both tell a true story from World War II ... Unbroken tells of Louis Zamperini who survived to tell about his adventures as a US..." Read more

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A Paean to Franz Stigler
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A Paean to Franz Stigler
While this book is hyped as a dual bio-narrative of WW2 foes in the skies over Europe in 1943, in reality it is a paean to Lt Franz Stigler, the German (non-"Nazi") fighter pilot. The authors seize upon an incident of remarkable honor and courage involving Stigler and American B-17 pilot Charlie Brown to try to build a parallel narrative of the two combatants. This event, unprecedented as it was, lasted maybe 15 or 20 minutes, and Stigler and Brown parted ways, never to encounter one another again until old age brought back their reflections, and an ultimate meeting.Brown and his surviving crew went on to fly other planes, completed their quota of missions without incident, and returned safely stateside. He reported the details of his unusual rescue, but his account was classified Top Secret, and he and his crew forbidden to discuss it. Stigler, for his part, fought out the war with many feats of derring do, and his remarkable story is well documented here.Stigler began by learning to fly gliders in 1927, at age 12. The Versailles Treaty prohibited Germany from the manufacture of engine-powered fixed-wing aircraft, so the future Luftwaffe cut its teeth by building and flying gliders. In this endeavor, Franz was tutored by his older brother August (killed early in the way flying a Ju-88), and by his father, a WW1 pilot.By the late '30s Stigler was a pilot (Ju-52) and instructor for Lufthansa, the premier European airline of the day. Though Stigler was a civilian, the new German Air Force (Luftwaffe) was in control of his flight instructor duties, and the authors document this well, the Nazi purpose being the training of a large pilot corps for war purposes.Eventually, after 4 years as an airline pilot and instructor, Stigler was to become a Luftwaffe enlistee, and his fighter pilot career commenced. Early in the war he served training pilots, but in 1942 began his fighting career in North Africa, flying the workhorse of the Luftwaffe fighter fleet, the Messerschmitt Bf-109, which he flew for most of the war, until the last days, when he flew the new jet-propelled Me-262. The authors stress Franz' preoccupation with confirmed "victories"--the downing of enemy fighters--as a given number of such led to promotions, honors and national repute. Thus did Stigler chalk up victories in North Africa, Sicily, Italy and finally over Europe. The authors spent many hours interviewing living members of his former mates and commanders, leaving a vivid picture of fighter combat in those years.Stigler rescued Charlie Brown's battered Ye Olde Pub, by escorting it out of Germany, using a ruse to bypass deadly anti-aircraft batteries, until the distressed B-17 cleared safely over the North Sea, where Stigler peeled off, giving Brown a salute and a wave. This experience softened Stigler's view of the importance of glory and honors, to the point of giving other new pilots credit for planes he himself had destroyed.Although Stigler might have acquired higher awards and honors than he officially achieved, his encounter with Ye Olde Pup over his fatherland, answering "the higher call", gave him the greater satisfaction. This work is well worth the reading, so I give it a 5
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  • Reviewed in the United States on November 5, 2024
    I don't believe in automatically giving everything five stars, especially books. This one merits them. This well-written, well-researched book tells the story of a remarkable incident that happened in December 1943, when a heavily damaged American B-17, piloted by 2nd Lt. Charlie Brown, encountered a German BF-109 piloted by ace Franz Stigler, in the skies above Oldenburg, Germany. What happened next (I won't spoil it) is testament to the fact that human decency can be found even in the middle of war.

    The book's main character--dare I say it, hero-- is Stigler, and the story follows his career as a pilot from childhood, as a commercial pilot, as a fighter pilot in the Luftwaffe of WWII, through the end of the war and beyond. It discusses the commanders and colleagues who influenced him and his approach to flying. (I would like to note that Stigler was never a Nazi, nor were most men in the regular military; in fact, the Nazis were disliked and resented, but also feared.) The book later introduces our second protagonist, Charlie Brown, a 21-year-old rookie pilot on his first combat mission, and his crew. We get to know both Franz and Charlie as they progress through their WWII careers and experience the challenges and successes, failures and terrors of flying combatants. The book humanizes both men, showing them as enemies but as decent people.

    If you get the book, be sure to read the introduction. It's worthwhile and provides context.

    I first learned about Charlie and Franz and their encounter through the Sabaton song "No Bullets Fly." If you want to know what "A Higher Call" is about before reading, check it out on YouTube (the story version!). YarnHub on YouTube has a somewhat more fleshed-out version. There are other videos examining the incident, and you can find articles, etc. by searching.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on January 31, 2013
    Every now and then I cross paths with a book that strikes a chord somewhere deep within me, a book that shares my waking hours and my sleep. This is one of those books, as was Laura Hillenbrand's Unbroken. Coincidentally, both tell a true story from World War II ... Unbroken tells of Louis Zamperini who survived to tell about his adventures as a US pilot in the Pacific, subsequent capture and imprisonment by the Japanese." A Higher Call: An Incredible True Story of Combat and Chivalry in the War-Torn Skies of World War II" tells of two pilots, one German and one American who meet high in the skies over Germany on December 20th, 1943. Both of these books will stay with me, I am sure, for a lifetime. A Higher Call grabbed me and simply won't let go.

    December 20, 1943, in the skies over Bremen, Germany. Charlie Brown is the pilot of a B17 bomber, just finishing a raid on an aircraft production facility. His plane has been hit multiple times by German flak. It was missing a rudder and had sustained serious damage to its hydraulic and electrical systems, not to mention that only one engine out of four was functioning at peak, one crew member was dead and several others seriously injured, and now Charlie faces flying through enemy flak to get north of Germany over the North Sea and back to Great Britain, a feat beyond all imaginings. Suddenly from behind he spots a German fighter plane and Charlie knows he and his crew have no chance to survive if the fighter shoots so much as a rock launched from a slingshot at their plane. This edge-of-the-seat action enhances, but does not dominate the story. The pilot in the German Bf109 is Franz Stigler, a man who joined the German Air Force (Luftwaffe) to avenge his brother's death. One look at the B17 and Stigler knew it didn't stand a chance. He remembered the words of his former leader and mentor, Gustav Roedel, who had once told Franz, "you score victories, not kills ... you shoot at a machine not a man", and decided in less time than it took the thought to form that he not only couldn't shoot down that crippled bomber but that he would do everything he could to save the men inside. There were two dangers to this, but Stigler barely registered them. The first, of course, was that the bomber would fire on him first and knock him out of the sky (he didn't know that the bomber's guns were frozen, all but the turret gun whose range was so limited that he was never really in any danger from that). But the other, perhaps greater danger was that if the German command ever found out that he had the chance to dispatch this bomber and didn't, he could be court-martialed and sentenced to death. On Stigler's mind at that moment in time, however, was how he could keep the crew on this bomber from either being sent to a fiery death by German flak or an icy death in the North Sea. Ultimately, he led them through the German flak and left them over the North Sea with a salute and a prayer that they could stay safe. And it is in this one episode that Franz Stigler became a hero in my book. He would go on to fight some 487 missions in the war and is now in history books as a German flying ace, but for me it was that one act of human kindness, of human compassion, that made him a hero.

    Though the book centers around the heroic acts of Charlie Brown and Franz Stigler in the air over Germany that day, the event itself actually occupies less than 4% (15 pages out of 368) of the book. Had I realized this in the beginning, I might never have bought the book and that would have been my loss. The bulk of the book follows Stigler's career and rise as a flying ace throughout the war and it is from this that I, who have nursed a hatred of all things pertaining to the German military almost since my birth, came to realize that not every soldier in Germany was a Nazi and not every soldier in Germany lacked a heart. The Luftwaffe, or German Air Force, in this book is shown to be no less human than any man in the USAF or any other branch of the Allied military. Overwhelmingly, the Luftwaffe were NOT members of the Nazi Party and did NOT support Hitler and his programs. They were simply there to do their jobs and defend their nation and its people. In fact, most were not aware of Hitler's "Final Solution" (the extermination of Jews) and the death camps until near the end of the war. For the most part Germans, including the Luftwaffe, were as afraid of the SS (Gestapo) as were we.

    Many years after the end of the war, both Brown and Stigler wondered what had become of one another. Neither knew the other's name, yet neither had forgotten that strange encounter in the skies over Germany. Eventually they would have their reunion and become brothers not of shared blood, but of shared life. Notably, though fifty years had passed since the end of WWII, once this story became public, Franz Stigler began receiving hate mail, presumably from Germans who felt that he should have blown Charlie and his crew out of the sky. I guess hatred is in no danger of becoming extinct any time soon.

    This is Adam Makos' first published book, though he has been editor of the military magazine Valor, for some fifteen years, and frankly I was intrigued when I read a synopsis of the storyline, but was not expecting great writing from this first-time author. I was wrong. The writing is as seamless and spell-binding as almost any I have read. This is a heart-warming, yet edge-of-the-seat true story that reads like a novel and leaves the reader wanting much more. Sadly, both Charlie Brown and Franz Stigler died in 2008. However there are photos and video clips of their reunion some 50 years later on the author's website: [...]. If you read no other non-fiction book this year, do yourself a favor and read this one. It will stay in your mind and in your heart for a good long time, maybe forever.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on December 10, 2024
    Very well written book, that follows German Ace Franz Stigler in his career as first a civilian pilot with the precursor to Lufthansa, then later a fighter pilot in ME 109s during WW II.
    Not to give away the plot (which other reviews have !) , but an excellent carefully researched true story.
    As a companion book, I highly recommend "The Final Hours: A German Jet Pilot Plots Against Goering",
    written by Johannes Steinhoff, a German jet pilot flying the ME -262, the first operational jet fighter at the end of WWII. Franz Stigler and "Mackie" Steinhoff paths cross many times at the end of WWII, and "The Final Hours" is highly recommended too.
    I own both books in hardcover editions, with excellent photographs in each book..

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  • Massimo
    5.0 out of 5 stars Imperdibile
    Reviewed in Italy on January 22, 2024
    Un libro davvero imperdibile per gli appassionati del genere. Non tanto per l'episodio centrale (che alla fine occupa un paio di capitoli) quanto per la storia del pilota tedesco che svela come una intera generazione finì nel tritacarne della IIGM senza essere minimamente nazista ma ciononostante combatté fino all'ultimo per una causa che sapeva persa da tempo. Molto interessante anche il racconto delle ultime fasi del conflitto quando la Luftwaffe iniziò ad impiegare i primi aerei a reazione Me262
  • Patrick Riemaeker
    5.0 out of 5 stars A must have book
    Reviewed in Belgium on January 16, 2024
    Incredible story …
  • Aldric Shaun
    5.0 out of 5 stars Absolute eye opener
    Reviewed in India on July 8, 2023
    Diverging from the usual narrative of the allies being the good guys and the axis being the bad, this book really humanizes the war as it is being narrated from the perspectives of both sides. A real must read and had me hooked since the beginning.
  • Barbara
    5.0 out of 5 stars Transmite la vida de los pilotos en el frente
    Reviewed in Spain on June 3, 2023
    Muy buen libro. Transmite la vida de dos pilotos de la segunda guerra mundial, especialmente la de Franz Stigler, y las condiciones y peculiaridades con las que vivían y combatían.
    El suceso protagonista del libro es impactante tanto cuando ocurre, como los hechos que le suceden tras la guerra.
    Consigue transmitir muchas de las emociones de los combatientes y ayuda a entender el porqué de sus actos, así como la Alemania de antes, durante y después de la guerra.
  • Bruno Manso
    5.0 out of 5 stars O que o mundo precisa ampliar
    Reviewed in Brazil on March 13, 2019
    É um momento da história que deve ser divulgado para os quatro cantos do mundo. Precisamos ampliar o dever de sermos verdadeiros seres humanos e abandonarmos as atitudes que nos transformam em monstros seja em tempos de guerra ou de paz.

    Excelente trabalho