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Condition: Good. Reprint. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Small previous owners ink name stamp on front end page, lean to spine. WWII.

Condition: New. pp. 400 Illus.

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Fair to good condition. Substantial wear to book covers, corners and edges. Marks on foredges. Previous owner has signed inside page. Interior and binding are still good.

368 s TB wie neu pages.

Hardcover, in dust jacket. Later printing. Fine in fine dust jacket, in mylar cover.

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.

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.

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.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Eighth printing. Inscribed by author (Adam Makos) on half title page. Also inscribed by a Bill Roche on half title page. Otherwise inside is clean and unmarked. Dust jacket has a small tear at top of spine. See photos. Inscribed by Author.

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.".