What happened next would defy imagination and later be called "the most incredible encounter between enemies in World War II." The U.S. The pilot is German ace Franz Stigler-and he can destroy the young American crew with the squeeze of a trigger. Suddenly, a Messerschmitt fighter pulls up on the bomber's tail. Half his crew lay wounded or dead on this, their first mission. At the controls is twenty-one-year-old Second Lieutenant Charlie Brown. About the Book The true story of two pilots whose lives collided in the skies over wartime Germany on December 21, 1943: an American-2nd Lieutenant Charlie Brown, a former farm boy from West Virginia who came to captain a B-17, and a German-2nd Lieutenant Franz Stigler, a former airline pilot from Bavaria who sought to avoid fighting in World War II.īook Synopsis THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER: "Beautifully told." -CNN - "A remarkable story.worth retelling and celebrating."- USA Today - "Oh, it's a good one!" -Fox News A "beautiful story of a brotherhood between enemies" emerges from the horrors of World War II in this New York Times bestseller by the author of Spearhead.ĭecember, 1943 A badly damaged American bomber struggles to fly over wartime Germany.
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