Lives are changed forever in the aftermath of Pearl Harbor . . .
1941:
Andrew Troost, heir to generations of naval tradition, has just been made admiral, when reports fly in of the attack on Pearl Harbor. Troost’s son, Warren, has followed in his footsteps and is one of the men fighting for his country on a PT boat in the Pacific.
In New York City, Tony Trapasso hears the call to action and gets ready to join the naval action. With him is Jacob Miller, a young man choosing to become a naval pilot instead of following the rabbinical calling of his Jewish forebears. They meet Glen Lascomb, a fresh-faced youth, raised on an Iowa farm, who is about to be catapulted into a sea of flaming oil in the Leyte Gulf . . .
This is their story-the saga of heroic Navy men caught in the raging crosscurrents of a war that thrust them together and tore them painfully apart . . .

One conflict ends and another begins . . .
1945
Twenty-six-year-old Lieutenant Commander Jacob Miller is now on his second combat tour in the Western Pacific. He’s survived the Battle of Midway and been awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross. But now the war is grinding away at him. And another bloody battle is always just around the corner . . .
Commander Warren Troost is determined to prove himself worthy of his family’s outstanding naval legacy. He’s already earned a Navy Cross for his bravery at Pearl Harbor, but now he has to do all he can just to stay alive . . .
Submarine commander Tony Trapasso has been liberated from a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp. He’s been given leave, but he knows it won’t be long before the need to serve his country calls him back into the action . . .

A new generation of men face the call of duty . . .
1960
Against the backdrop of the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Vietnam War, three pairs of fathers and sons must put their honor and bravery to the ultimate test.
Captain Warren Troost is determined to make flag rank and have his son, Andrew, follow in his footsteps. But Andrew is torn between upholding the formidable Troost legacy and pursuing his passions.
Now working for the CIA, Tony Trapasso must hide his murky missions from the people he loves, while his fighter pilot son, Mike, flies into the burning skies of Vietnam.
Moving among the highest circles of command in Washington DC, Captain Jacob Miller finds his sense of duty in conflict with his personal beliefs. Determined to live up to Jacob’s war hero status, his son, Sy, throws himself into the most dangerous operations.
With more bloodshed on the horizon, all six men must find the strength to serve their country by plunging into the heart of the conflict . . .