A higher call : the incredible true story of heroism and chivalry during the second world war
Adam Makos
Bok · Engelsk · 2014
| Utgitt | London : Atlantic Books , 2014
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| Omfang | 392 s. : fotografier
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| Opplysninger | 1. A Stranger in My Own Land; 2. Follow the Eagles; 3. A Feather in the Wind; 4. Fire Free; 5. The Desert Amusement Park; 6. The Stars of Africa; 7. The Homecoming; 8. Welcome to Olympus; 9. The Unseen Hand; 10. The Berlin Bear; 11. The Farm Boy; 12. The Quiet Ones; 13. The Lives of Nine; 14. The Boxer; 15. A Higher Call; 16. The Third Pilot; 17. Pride; 18. Stick Close to Me; 19. The Downfall; 20. The Flying Sanatorium; 21. We Are the Air Force; 22. The Squadron of Experts 23. The Last of the German Fighter Pilots24. Where Bombs Had Fallen; 25. Was It Worth It?. - 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 the German - 2nd Lieutenant Franz Stigler. A Higher Call follows both Charl
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| ISBN | 9781782392569
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