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SOON TO BE A MAJOR HOLLYWOOD FILM
This is aerial drama at its best Fast powerful and moving Erik Larson

A must read New York Post

Devotion is the gripping story of the US Navys most famous aviator duo Tom Hudner a white blueblooded New Englander and Jesse Brown a black sharecroppers son from Mississippi Against all odds Jesse beat back racism to become the Navys first black aviator Against all expectations Tom passed up a free ride at Harvard to fly fighter planes for his country Barely a year after President Truman ordered the desegregation of the military the two became wingmen in Fighter Squadron 32 and went on to fight sidebyside in the Korean War

In an enthralling narrative Adam Makos follows Tom and Jesses journey to the wars climatic battle at the Chosin Reservoir where they flew headlong into waves of troops in order to defend an entire division of Marines trapped on a frozen lake It was here that one of them was faced with an unthinkable choice and discovered how far they would go to save a friend