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02182aam a2200337 a 4500 001 C2A1351A7D8611E2980D6DADDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20130223010048 008 130214s2012 xxu eng d 020 $a 9780425252864 (hardcover) 020 $a 0425252868 (hardcover) 040 $d SILO 100 1 $a Makos, Adam. 245 12 $a A higher call : $b an incredible true story of combat and chivalry in the war-torn skies of World War II / $c Adam Makos, Larry Alexander. 250 $a 1st ed. 260 $a New York : $b Berkley Hardcover, $c 2012. 300 $a viii, 392 p. : $b ill. ; $c 24 cm. 500 $a A stranger in my own land -- Follow the eagles -- A feather in the wind -- Fire free -- The desert amusement park -- The stars of Africa -- The homecoming -- Welcome to Olympus -- The unseen hand -- The Berlin bear -- The farm boy -- The quiet ones -- The lives of nine -- The boxer -- A higher call -- The third pilot -- Pride -- Stick close to me -- The downfall -- The flying sanatorium -- We are the air force -- The squadron of experts -- The last of the German fighter pilots -- Where bombs had fallen -- Was it worth it? 520 $a This is the true story of the two pilots whose lives collided in the skies over wartime Germany on 21 December 1943 --the American--2nd Lieutenant Charlie Brown, a former farm boy from West Virginia who came to captain a B-17--and the German--2nd Lieutenant Franz Stigler, a former airline pilot from Bavaria who sought to avoid fighting in World War II. 650 $a World War, 1939-1945 $x Aerial operations, American 650 $a World War, 1939-1945 $x Aerial operations, German 650 $a Bombing, Aerial $x 20th century $x History $x 20th century 650 $a Bomber pilots $x Biography $x Biography 650 $a Fighter pilots $x Biography $x Biography 650 $a Brown, Charlie, 1912-2008 650 $a Stigler, Franz, 1916-2008 700 1 $a Alexander, Larry. 856 40 $3 URL $u http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0425252868/chopaconline-20 941 $a 1 952 $l EZPE755 $d 20151216020445.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=C2A1351A7D8611E2980D6DADDAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search