A Higher Call, (Hardcover)

from quirkylibrarian

A well paced narrative non-fiction that is at once entertaining, informative and heart wrenching. Keeping an even tone, even as he notes events of the most emotional and incredible description, Makos lays out the stories of two WWII enemy pilots, their personal and military circumstances and an i...

from marshapetry

Read it! Awesome. How often I've wished for some German history in my WWII readings. This is a great story. Even though the "higher call" climax is just one chapter, Franz's life and history with the German Luftwaffe was incredible to hear and really does give pause to the overall Germans-all-bad...

from Stbalbach

Another great story from WWII with lines reaching to the present. I appreciated the realistic portrayal of the Luftwaffe warts and all, and following the career of a single German pilot from start to end, up to the present. It has epic qualities that shows the rising and falling fortunes of the G...

from Cataloger623

This is a great book about a little known event that occurred during bomber war over Europe prior to the D-Day invasion of WWII. German fighter aircraft tired to exterminate Allied bombers. This was a no holds barred no quarter given battle to the death. In this fight an American bomber was shot ...

from dswaddell

Primarily the story of a German fighter Ace during WW2 this books centers around an incident in which Franz Stigler flying an FW 109 spares a defenseless B-17 with Charlie Brown as the pilot returning from a mission over Germany. It chronicals both pilots lives during and after the war but the fo...