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 Devotion, now a Major Motion Picture.
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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."
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.