{"product_id":"9780425255735","title":"A Higher Call: An Incredible True Story of Combat and Chivalry in the War-Torn Skies of World War II","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTHE \u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e AND INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDecember, 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... \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat happened next would defy imagination and later be called “the most incredible encounter between enemies in World War II.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe U.S. 8th Air Force would later classify what happened between them as “top secret.” 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eINCLUDES PHOTOS\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47011486171376,"sku":"9780425255735","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780425255735_p0.jpg?v=1763700888","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780425255735","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}