Devotion

United StatesInterracial friendshipHISTORY / Military / Korean WarUnited States. NavyHistory

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Open Library

About this book

"For readers of Unbroken comes an unforgettable tale of courage from America's 'forgotten war' in Korea, by the New York Times bestselling author of A Higher Call. Devotion tells the inspirational story of the U.S. Navy's most famous aviator duo, Lieutenant Tom Hudner and Ensign Jesse Brown, and the Marines they fought to defend. A white New Englander from the country-club scene, Tom passed up Harvard to fly fighters for his country. An African American sharecropper's son from Mississippi, Jesse became the Navy's first black carrier pilot, defending a nation that wouldn't even serve him in a bar. While much of America remained divided by segregation, Jesse and Tom joined forces as wingmen in Fighter Squadron 32. Adam Makos takes us into the cockpit as these bold young aviators cut their teeth at the world's most dangerous job--landing on the deck of an aircraft carrier--a line of work that Jesse's young wife, Daisy, struggles to accept. Deployed to the Mediterranean, Tom and Jesse meet the Fleet Marines, boys like PFC 'Red' Parkinson, a farm kid from the Catskills. In between war games in the sun, the young men revel on the Riviera, partying with millionaires and even befriending the Hollywood starlet Elizabeth Taylor. Then comes the war no one expected, in faraway Korea. Devotion takes us soaring overhead with Tom and Jesse, and into the foxholes with Red and the Marines as they battle a North Korean invasion. As the fury of the fighting escalates and the Marines are cornered at the Chosin Reservoir, Tom and Jesse fly, guns blazing, to try and save them. When one of the d…

Themes & subjects

United StatesInterracial friendshipHISTORY / Military / Korean WarUnited States. NavyHistoryOfficers

Characters & people

Setting

United StatesKorea (North)Changjin Reservoir20th century

About the author

Adam Makos

1981

Adam Makos (born 1981) is an American writer, editor, historian and publisher. Makos specializes in war novels and biographies appearing on the New York Times Best Seller list twice for his works *Spearhead* and *A Higher Call*. While in high school Makos was one of the founding members of Valor a magazine depicting veterans stories ranging from World War I to Iraq War. Makos has published two NY Times Best Sellers; *Spearhead* and *A Higher Call* as well as *Voices of the Pacific* which follows marines and seamen who served in the Pacific during World War II.[6] In 2018 it was announced Makos' third novel *Devotion* would be turned into a film. The release date has yet to be announced. …