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For readers of Unbroken comes an unforgettable tale of courage from America's "forgotten battle" in Korea, by the New York Times best-selling author of A Higher Call. Devotion explains to the inspirational story of the US Navy's most well-known aviator duo, Lieutenant Tom Hudner and Ensign Jesse Brown, and the marines they fought to guard. A white New Englander from the country-club landscape, Tom handed down up Harvard to travel fighters for his country. An African American sharecropper's son from Mississippi, Jesse became the navy's first dark carrier pilot, defending a nation that wouldn't even provide him in a bar. While a lot of America remained divided by segregation, Jesse and Tom joined up with pushes as wingmen in Fighter Squadron 32. Adam Makos requires us in to the cockpit as these vivid young aviators minimize their tooth at the world's most dangerous job - landing on the deck of any aircraft carrier - and a type of work that Jesse's young wife, Daisy, struggles to accept. Deployed to the Mediterranean, Tom and Jesse meet the Fleet Marines, young boys like PFC "Red" Parkinson, a plantation 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 battle nobody expected, in faraway Korea. Devotion requires us soaring over head with Tom and Jesse and in to the foxholes with Red and the marines as they challenge a North Korean invasion. As the fury of the struggling with escalates and the marines are cornered at the Chosin Tank, Tom and Jesse travel, guns blazing, to try to save them. When one of the duo is taken down behind adversary lines and pinned in his using up airplane, the other faces an unthinkable choice: watch his friend die or look at history's most audacious one-man save mission. A tug-at-the-heartstrings tale of bravery and selflessness, Devotion asks: How far could you go to save a friend?