A Higher Call: The Incredible True Story of Heroism and Chivalry During the Second World War by Adam Makos

A Higher Call: The Incredible True Story of Heroism and Chivalry During the Second World War

Adam Makos

300 pages first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction biography history emotional informative inspiring slow-paced

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Five days before Christmas 1943, a badly damaged American bomber struggled to fly over wartime Germany. At its controls was a twenty-one-year-old pilot. Half his crew lay wounded or dead. Suddenly a German Messerschmitt fighter pulled up on the bo...

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inspiring 77%
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informative 66%
tense 48%
hopeful 40%
reflective 40%
sad 40%
challenging 33%
dark 22%
lighthearted 3%

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slow 13%

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