A Higher Call

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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 Spearhead. 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. (Description from external book data)

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