nTHE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER: Beautifully told.--CNN - A remarkable story...worth retelling and celebrating.--USA Today - Oh, its a good one --Fox News nA beautiful story of a brotherhood between enemies emerges from the horrors of World War II in this New York Times bestseller by the author of Spearhead. n nDecember, 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 bombers tail. The pilot is German ace Franz Stigler--and he can destroy the young American crew with the squeeze of a trigger... n nWhat happened next would defy imagination and later be called the most incredible encounter between enemies in World War II. n nThe 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.n