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THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER: “Beautifully told.â€â€”CNN•“A remarkable story...worth retelling and celebrating.â€â€”USA Today•“Oh, it’s a good one!â€â€”Fox NewsA “beautiful story of a brotherhood between enemies†emerges from the horrors of World War II in thisNew York Timesbestseller by the author ofSpearhead.
December, 1943: A badly damaged American bomber struggles to fly over wartime Germany. At the controls is twenty-one-year-old Second Lieutenant Charlie Brown. Half his crew lay wounded or dead on this, their first mission. Suddenly, a Messerschmitt fighter pulls up on the bomber’s tail. The pilot is German ace Franz Stigler—and he can destroy the young American crew with 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.â€
The U.S. 8th Air Force would later classify what happened between them as “top secret.†It was an act that Franz could never mention for fear of facing a firing squad. It was the encounter that would haunt both Charlie and Franz for forty years until, as old men, they would search the world for each other, a last mission that could change their lives forever.
