A higher call : an incredible true story of combat and chivalry in the war-torn skies of World War II

• Tác giả: Larry Alexander, Adam Makos
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-10: 0425252868
• ISBN-13: 978-0425252864
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 940.54 Military history of World War II
• Thông tin xuất bản: New York : Berkley Caliber, 2013.
• Mô tả vật lý: viii, 392 p., [16] p. of plates : , ill. ; , 24 cm.
• Bộ sưu tập: Lịch sử, Địa lý
• ID: 80507
• Chủ đề: 1. Bomber pilots--United States; 2. Bombing, Aerial--History--20th century--Germany; 3. Fighter pilots--Germany; 4. World War, 1939-1945--Aerial operations, American; 5. World War, 1939-1945--Aerial operations, German; 6. Brown, Charlie,; 7. Stigler, Franz,

Includes bibliographical references.

Tóm tắt

This is the true story of the two pilots whose lives collided in the skies over wartime Germany on 21 December 1943 --the American--2nd Lieutenant Charlie Brown, a former farm boy from West Virginia who came to captain a B-17--and the German--2nd Lieutenant Franz Stigler, a former airline pilot from Bavaria who sought to avoid fighting in World War II.This is the true story of the two pilots whose lives collided in the skies over wartime Germany on 21 December 1943 --the American--2nd Lieutenant Charlie Brown, a former farm boy from West Virginia who came to captain a B-17--and the German--2nd Lieutenant Franz Stigler, a former airline pilot from Bavaria who sought to avoid fighting in World War II.