01649cam a2200337 4500 156474476 TxAuBib 20140303120000.0 120426m20122013||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2012015546 9780425252864 hardcover $26.95 0425252868 hardcover $26.95 (OCoLC)829212929 TxAuBib Makos, Adam. A higher call : an incredible true story of combat and chivalry in the war-torn skies of Word War II / by Adam Makos with Larry Alexander. New York : Berkley Books, 2012-2013. viii, 392 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. [389]-392). 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. 20140303. Brown, Charlie, 1912-2008. Stigler, Franz, 1916-2008. World War, 1939-1945 Aerial operations, American. World War, 1939-1945 Aerial operations, German. Bombing, Aerial Germany History 20th century. Bomber pilots United States Biography. Fighter pilots Germany Biography. Alexander, Larry, 1951- TXKEP