A Higher Call, by Adam Makos

[rachelmanija]

Nonfiction about a brief but fateful encounter between a German ace fighter pilot and an American bomber crew, in mid-air; forty years later, the two pilots met up again. The book started out as a magazine article, and I bet it was a terrific one. It’s a great story and unlike many WWII stories, this one is about people’s best behavior rather than

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[sartorias]

I found this a gripping read:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/652024.A_Question_of_Honor

[desperance]

Not a memoir, but "Reach for the Sky" is the famous British biography of Douglas Bader, the flyer who lost both legs in a crash but still got to fly Spitfires in the war until he was shot down over Germany and spent the rest of the war as a POW, with the RAF famously parachuting a new artificial leg to him in Colditz to replace the one he lost when he was shot down. Etc. One of those extraordinary lives. (Also a movie, starring Kenneth More.)

[axolotl9]

I just picked this book up at Logos' going out of business sale (sigh...) and am looking forward to reading it.