![]() ![]() He describes the book title as "one man's humanity over his nationality". He writes regularly about the Second World War and as in the book, he relates some of his work to his own life changing experiences. Makos is editor of a military history magazine, Valor. It has 400 pages, and includes photographs, notes and a bibliography. The work is based on interviews with Stigler and Brown more than 50 years after the incident.Ī Higher Call: An Incredible True Story of Combat and Chivalry in the War-Torn Skies of World War II was written by military historian Adam Makos with military writer Larry Alexander and published in 2012 by Berkley Books. In it, Franz Stigler, a German Luftwaffe fighter ace flying a Messerschmitt Bf 109, guided a severely damaged American Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress out of German airspace after failing to persuade it to surrender, an act of chivalry. It recounts the story of the Charlie Brown and Franz Stigler incident of 1943, which took place in the skies of Germany during the Second World War. ![]() A Higher Call is a non-fiction book by Adam Makos with Larry Alexander, published in 2012 by Berkley Books. ![]()
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