This instant Sunday Times bestseller tells the story of two fighter pilots whose remarkable encounter during the Second World War became the stuff of legend.
Five days before Christmas 1943, a badly damaged American bomber struggled to fly over wartime Germany. At its controls was a twenty-one-year-old pilot. Half his crew lay wounded or dead. Suddenly a German Messerschmitt fighter pulled up on the bomber's tail - the German pilot was an ace, a man able to destroy the American bomber with the squeeze of a trigger. This is the true story of the two pilots whose lives collided in the skies that day - the American - 2nd Lieutenant Charlie Brown and the German - 2nd Lieutenant Franz Stigler.
Product details
Publisher : Atlantic Books; Main edition (3 April 2014)
Language : English
Paperback : 400 pages
ISBN-10 : 1782392564
ISBN-13 : 978-1782392569
Dimensions : 13 x 3 x 20 cm
Best Sellers Rank: 14,287 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
15 in Air Force Biographies
43 in Aviation References
Customer reviews: 4.7
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