What happened next would defy imagination and later be called “the most incredible encounter between enemies in World War II.” The pilot is German ace Franz Stigler-and he can destroy the young American crew with the squeeze of a trigger. Suddenly, a Messerschmitt fighter pulls up on the bomber’s tail. Half his crew lay wounded or dead on this, their first mission. At the controls is twenty-one-year-old Second Lieutenant Charlie Brown. “A remarkable story.worth retelling and celebrating.”- USA Today Ī “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 Spearhead.**ĭecember, 1943: A badly damaged American bomber struggles to fly over wartime Germany.**THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER: “Beautifully told.” -CNN This entry was posted in Reviews, Tredyffrin Staff Picks and tagged biography, nonfiction, world war ii. World War II buffs such as me will enjoy this book.Ĭheck availability on A Higher Call todayĪbout the reviewer: Tredyffrin circulation staff member Susan Williams is interested in World War II and her two beautiful granddaughters. Read this inspiring book and see what happens when these two pilots meet some forty years later. You fight by rules to keep your humanity.” Perhaps he remembered his commanding officer who once told him: “You follow the rules of war for you– not your enemy. Stigler, who could trace his family’s ancestry to knights in the 16th century lived by a code.
People in Germany had been killed for far less. In doing so, the German risked a firing squad for helping the enemy escape. Seeing the heavy damage to the American plane, the German inexplicably decided not to destroy the enemy plane, but to escort him safely over Germany. Out of the blue a German fighter plane appeared along side of his aircraft. In December of 1943, Brown was piloting his badly damaged bomber over Germany. This is a dual biography of two World War II fighter pilots an American, Charlie Brown and his counterpart, German, Franz Stigler. A Higher Call :An Incredible True Story of Combat and Chivalry in the War-torn Skies of World War II
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