This instant Sunday Times bestseller tells the story of two fighter pilots, an American and a German, whose remarkable encounter during the Second World War became the stuff of legend
Adam Makos is a journalist, historian and editor of the military
magazine, Valor. Makos has interviewed countless veterans from the
Second World War, Korea, Vietnam, and present-day wars. In 2008
Makos travelled to Iraq to accompany the 101st Airborne and Army
Special Forces on their hunt for Al Qaeda terrorists.
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.
Well worth reading... A Higher Call pounds along with the
all-action rhythm its genre seems to demand, but still manages to
rescue the idea of German chivalry from cliché... A Higher Call is
deeply felt by its author and deeply affecting to read. Apparently
humans react more sentimentally to films and books consumed on
aeroplanes than on the ground. I read this at 30,000ft... but I
suspect it would have ambushed my emotions anywhere.
*The Times*
A truly awe inspiring story of wartime chivalry
*Daily Mail*
A riveting story of humanity and mercy set against the ghastly
backdrop of war
*Publishers Weekly*
A remarkable story... Brown and Stigler, former enemies who became
friends, died within months of each other in 2008. Their story is
worth retelling and celebrating.
*USA Today*
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