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THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER: āBeautifully told.āāCNN ā¢ āA remarkable story...worth retelling and celebrating.āāUSA Today ā¢ āOh, itās a good one!āāFox News
A ābeautiful story of a brotherhood between enemiesā emerges from the horrors of World War II in this New York Times bestseller by the author of Devotion, now a Major Motion Picture.
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 bomberās tail. The pilot is German ace Franz Stiglerāand he can destroy the young American crew with the squeeze of a trigger...
What happened next would defy imagination and later be called āthe most incredible encounter between enemies in World War II.ā
The U.S. 8th Air Force would later classify what happened between them as ātop secret.ā 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.