Pre-Owned Devotion : An Epic Story of Heroism, Friendship, and Sacrifice (Hardcover) 9780804176583

from Elliot1822

"Devotion" by Adam Makos is an absolutely fantastic and true story of two men, Tom Hudner a white well to do guy from New England, and Jesse Brown, the black son of a sharecropper from Mississippi. Against all odds and advice, Jesse beat back the ugly chains of racism to become the Navy's first b...

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I received an ARC from the publisher for a fair review. Adam Makos, who had a surprise bestseller two years back in the WW II book, "A Higher Call", returns with the story of Lt. Tom Hudner, a well off white New Englander and Ensign Jesse Brown, two Naval Aviators, who forged a bond of friendship...

from marilynsantiago

I just got my copy of Devotion. It is a wonderfully written book about the Korean War and friendship. Adam Makos spent years tracking down the stories and the people who participated in that war. He brings it to life and you really get an idea of how hard and how courageous our Armed Forces were ...

from thewanderingjew

Devotion, Adam Makos, author; Dominic Hoffman, narrator This is a well written book that is read expertly by the narrator. It describes two men that became military heroes during the Korean War. One was white and came from privilege and one was black and came from poverty. Both men transcended th...

from buffalogr

This is a very moving story, pretty well written. Devotion illuminated the bigger conflict, the war, but also the conflict between service men of different races. The portrayal of segretation with regard to an upper class white pilot who became best friends with a share cropper's son from Mississ...