A Higher Call recounts the extraordinary encounter between U.S. Army Air Forces pilot 2nd Lt. Charlie Brown and German Luftwaffe ace 2nd Lt. Franz Stigler during World War II. On December 20, 1943, Brown’s B-17 bomber, “Ye Olde Pub,” was severely damaged during a bombing raid over Germany. As the crew struggled to return to England, Stigler, flying a Messerschmitt Bf 109, approached the crippled bomber. Instead of attacking, Stigler escorted the American aircraft to safety, an act of chivalry that defied the norms of wartime conduct. The book explores the backgrounds and experiences of both pilots, their fateful encounter, and their reunion decades later.