Adam Makos

'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 Navy's most famous aviator duo - Tom Hudner, a white, blue-blooded New Englander, and Jesse Brown, a black sharecropper's son from Mississippi. Against all odds, Jesse beat back racism to become...

At first, gunner Clarence Smoyer and his fellow crewmen in the legendary 3rd Armored Division Spearhead thought their tanks were invincible. Then they met the German Panther, with a gun so murderous it could shoot through one Sherman and into the next. Soon a pattern emerged: the lead tank always gets hit. After Clarence sees his friends cut down breaching...

Five days before Christmas 1943, a badly damaged American bomber struggled to fly over wartime Germany. At its controls was a twenty-one-year-old pilot. Half his crew lay wounded or dead. Suddenly a German Messerschmitt fighter pulled up on the bomber's tail—the German pilot was an ace, a man able to destroy the American bomber with the squeeze of a trigger....