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BL
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| Record Number
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688542
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| Doc. No
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b510731
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| Main Entry
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Makos, Adam.
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| Title & Author
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A higher call /\ Adam Makos with Larry Alexander.
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: Berkley Books,, 2013.
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| Page. NO
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viii, 392 pages :: illustrations ;; 24 cm
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| ISBN
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0425252868
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: 9780425252864
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references.
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| Contents
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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?
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| Abstract
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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.
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Brown, Charlie,1922-2008.
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Stigler, Franz,1916-2008.
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Bomber pilots-- United States, Biography.
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Bombing, Aerial-- Germany-- History-- 20th century.
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Fighter pilots-- Germany, Biography.
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World War, 1939-1945-- Aerial operations, American.
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World War, 1939-1945-- Aerial operations, German.
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| Dewey Classification
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940.54/443092
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| LC Classification
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D785.M34 2013
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| Added Entry
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Alexander, Larry,1951-
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