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Published by Dutton Caliber, 2014
ISBN 10: 0425255735ISBN 13: 9780425255735
Seller: ThriftBooks-Dallas, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.14.
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Published by Dutton Caliber, 2012
ISBN 10: 0425252868ISBN 13: 9780425252864
Seller: ZBK Books, Carlstadt, NJ, U.S.A.
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Condition: good. Used book in good and clean conditions. Pages and cover are intact. Limited notes marks and highlighting may be present. May show signs of normal shelf wear and bends on edges. Item may be missing CDs or access codes. May include library marks. Fast Shipping.
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Published by Berkley Caliber 0
Seller: Jadewalky Book Company, HANOVER PARK, IL, U.S.A.
Condition: Used - Very Good. THE "NEW YORK TIMES" AND INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER Four days before Christmas 1943, a badly damaged American bomber struggled to fly over wartime Germany. At its controls was a 21-year-old pilot. Half his crew lay wounded or dead. It was their first mission. Suddenly, a sleek, dark shape pulled up on the bomber s tail a German Messerschmitt fighter. Worse, the German pilot was an ace, a man able to destroy the American bomber in 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." This is the true story of the two pilots whose lives collided in the skies that day 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. "A Higher Call" follows both Charlie and Franz s harrowing missions. Charlie would face takeoffs in English fog over the flaming wreckage of his buddies planes, flak bursts so close they would light his cockpit, and packs of enemy fighters that would circle his plane like sharks. Franz would face sandstorms in the desert, a crash alone at sea, and the spectacle of 1,000 bombers each with eleven guns, waiting for his attack. Ultimately, Charlie and Franz would stare across the frozen skies at one another. What happened between them, the American 8th Air Force would later classify as top secret. It was an act that Franz could never mention or else face a firing squad. It was the encounter that would haunt both Charlie and Franz for forty years until, as old men, they would search for one another, a last mission that could change their lives forever.".
Published by Berkley Caliber, New York, 2014
Seller: Vero Beach Books, Vero Beach, FL, U.S.A.
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Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Fine condition color photographic softcover wraps. Includes Praise for A Higher Call; Dedication; Introduction; Afterword; Acknowledgments; To Learn More; Notes; and Bibliography. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs. "From the horrors of the most savage war in history emerges this beautiful story of a brotherhood between enemies." - Joe Galloway, author. "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." - from the rear outer cover. "This book grips you like a movie. It's part Top Gun, part Valkyrie, and more!" - Marcus Brotherton, author.
Published by Atlantic Books, Limited, 2014
ISBN 10: 1782392564ISBN 13: 9781782392569
Seller: Majestic Books, Hounslow, United Kingdom
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Condition: New. pp. 400 Illus.
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Very Good. Brown, Charlie, 1922-2008. Stigler, Franz, 1916-2008. World War, 1939-1945 Aerial operations. American World War. German Bombing, Aerial. Germany History 20th century Bomber pilots. Fighter pilots.
Published by Atlantic Books, Limited, 2013
ISBN 10: 1782392548ISBN 13: 9781782392545
Seller: Better World Books Ltd, Dunfermline, United Kingdom
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Condition: Good. Ships from the UK. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.
Published by Atlantic Books, 2013
ISBN 10: 178239253XISBN 13: 9781782392538
Seller: Greener Books, London, United Kingdom
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Published by Blackstone Audio Inc., 2013
Seller: Shasta Library Foundation, Redding, CA, U.S.A.
Audio Book (CD). Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket Issued. Robertson Dean, Reader (illustrator). Audio book in 11 CDs in sealed case.131/2 hours. Unabridged.
Published by London, Atlantic Books, (2014)., 2014
First Paperback Edition; 8vo; pp. vii, 392; numerous b/w illustrations and plates; acknowledgements, notes, bibliography; stiff illustrated wrapper; a fine copy.
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Published by riva Verlag, 2017
ISBN 10: 3742301977ISBN 13: 9783742301970
Seller: der buecherjaeger antiquarischer Buchandel & Büchersuchdienst, Neustrelitz, Germany
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brochiert. Adam Makos mit Larry Alexander Eine höhere Pflicht Wie ein deutscher Pilot seinem amerikanischen Feind im zweiten Weltkrieg das Leben schenkte riva Verlag ISBN 978-3-7423-0197-0 broschiert gut erhalten --n-- Liebe Kunden ich bin bis zum 20.5.24 im Urlaub so dass ich erst dann Ihre Bestellung bearbeiten kann. Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 600.
Published by New York, Berkley Caliber, (2013)., 2013
8vo; pp. viii, 392; illustrated title page, 16 pages of b/w plates, maps, b/w illustrations, notes, bibliography; original papered boards, minor chipping and rubbing to dustjacket; otherwise a very good copy.
Published by Berkley Caliber, New York, 2013
ISBN 10: 0425252868ISBN 13: 9780425252864
Seller: Cat's Curiosities, Pahrump, NV, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Jacket painting by John D. Shaw (illustrator). The special "Higher Call" bookplate attached to FFE bears three signatures: One is that of author Adam Makos. The second is that of Hugh McGinty. We can find no reference to McGinty in this book, though we may have missed it. McGinty, who enlisted in 1941, was an 8th Air Force B-17 tail gunner flying out of Kimbolton Field, as did Charlie Brown's "Ye Olde Pub" (subject of this account.) But McGinty did not fly the Bremen raid of Dec. 20, 1943 in the "Pub," as the tail gunner on that flight was killed. McGinty remained in the Air Force through the Berlin Airlift, retiring as a Master Sergeant and penning his own memoir, "A Tail Gunner Looks Back." As he and author Makos both hail from Colorado, his attendance at an 8th Air Force-related book-signing would not be unlikely. We do not recognize the third signature, which might be "Bob Egand." The address label of a previous owner -- himself a naval aviator -- is also attached to FFE. There is a 3/8th inch tear to bottom of jacket spine where it joins the front panel. Number line 10 9 8 7 6, only -- the sixth printing. Shot up by German fighters, a straggler, one crewman dead and at least one other seriously wounded, one of her four engines shot out, one stuck at half power, and a third requiring constant shutdowns and restarts to keep it from "running away," the "Olde Pub" was a wreck. Her nose glass gone so that a freezing gale blew the length of the interior, radio out, intercom and oxygen systems failing, her left horizontal stabilizer shot away, her pilot and co-pilot passed out and she spiraled down from 25,000 to 3,000 feet, where Charlie Brown recovered and pulled back on his control column, at which point the "Pub" did what no four-engine bomber in that condition should have been able to do -- she pulled out and flew . . . directly toward the massive German coastal FLAK emplacements that she had to cross over to even start her journey home across the North Sea. And then her luck finally appeared to run out. Luftwaffe Second Lt. Franz Stigler, in a fully fueled and armed Messerschmitt 109, slid in behind the Olde Pub, where he noticed the tail gunner had been killed, and where he further could see through large holes in the fuselage the bomber's crew scrambling to tie tourniquets and save the lives of their wounded comrades. All Stigler, a fine pilot with experience in North Africa who had already shot down two B-17s that day -- had to do was finish the bomber off with a couple of bursts. In fact, he could have been court martialed for doing anything else -- especially for choosing to do something as unorthodox as escorting "Ye Olde Pub" safely across the coastal FLAK batteries and out to sea. Why on earth might any German pilot choose to do something like that? . . . 392 pp. including Notes and Bibliography -- no Index. Reduced from $90. Signed by Author(s).
Published by Berkley Caliber, New York, 2012
ISBN 10: 0425252868ISBN 13: 9780425252864
Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. First Edition; Thirteenth Printing. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. Light creasing on front panel top corner. ; 400 pages.
Published by The Berkley Publishing Group, New York, 2013
Seller: Rare Aviation Books, Millers Point, NSW, Australia
First Edition
Tall octavo, two-toned taupe and dove-grey boards, viii, 392 pp., eight double-sided black-and-white plates. Spine ends a little bumped, otherwise a near-fine copy. First edition. An account of the extraordinary mid-air incident between American Second Lieutenant Charlie Brown and German Second Lieutenant Franz Stigler, both pilots during World War Two. In an act of unexpected chivalry, Stigler guided Brown's severely damaged Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress out of German airspace after failing to persuade Brown to surrender. Based on interviews with Brown and Stigler, journalist Adam Makos recounts each pilot's lives leading up to the incident and what followed, including the two men's search for each other.
Published by Äripäev, 2021
ISBN 10: 9949694949ISBN 13: 9789949694945
Seller: Ruslania, Helsinki, Finland
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Condition: new. Pages: 408 Language: Estonian. Detsember 1943. Ribadeks tulistatud USA pommituslennuk näeb sõjaaegse Saksamaa kohal kurja vaeva, et pääseda vaenlase õhuruumist. Ühtäkki võtab sellele sappa Saksa hävitaja. Selle piloot on vana lennuäss - ja ta võib ühe päästikuvajutusega hävitada nii USA piloodi kui ka tema võitluskaaslased . Mis edasi juhtub, on midagi hämmastavat. Saksa piloot ei iitsata sellest hiljem kellelegi, sest riskib sõjakohtu alla sattumisega. USA õhujõud klassifitseerivad juhtunut puudutava info ülisalajaseks. See kohtumine sõjataevas jääb aga kummitama mõlemat meest, kuni nad otsustavad 40 aastat hiljem teineteise üles otsida. "Kõrgem kutse" on haaravalt kirja pandud liigutav lugu sellest, kuidas inimlikkus võib võidutseda ka kõige julmematel aegadel. See on lugu meestest, kes sunniti olema vaenlased, ent kellest said vennad. Äripäeva kirjastuselt on varem ilmunud Adam Makose "Löögirusikas" (2020). 9789949694945.