THE NEW YORK TIMES AND INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
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.