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Full Fathom Five: A Daughter's Search

7 reviews
Mary Lee Coe Fowler

University of Alabama Press, 2008

Full Fathom Five review
As our family "armchair" genealogist, I have recently begun some research into a cousin's life who was a World War II Japanese POW. Delving into military history can be tedious. Facts are the "skeleton" of research, but makes for dry reading, and very obviously the literature field on World War II has been a male-dominated one, understandably. Enter one Ms. Mary Lee Coe Fowler. Full ...

Get a Shot of Rhythm and Blues: The Arthur Alexander Story

6 reviews
Richard Younger

University Alabama Press, 2000

Get A Shot of the Truth Behind Arthur Alexander!
This is a great book that provides clear and concise insight into the life of Arthur Alexander. The story behind the singer, the songwriter and a true influence behind some of the greatest figures of rock and roll. This story should be made into a movie so everyone can learn about this unsung hero. Richard Younger has researched Arthur's life, the people he affected directly, and the soul of this ...

River Song: A Journey down the Chattahoochee and Apalachicola River

8 reviews
Joe Cook

University Alabama Press, 2000

Award Winner for Book Design
This book has won a Southern Books Competition Award of Merit in Book Design from the Southeastern Library Association. This award is given in recognition of the book's aesthetic appeal and design and for fine craftsmanship in its printing and binding. Congratulations to authors Joe Cook and Monica Cook, designer John Langston, printer Pacifica Communications, and the University of Alabama Press.

A-Train: Memoirs of a Tuskegee Airman

5 reviews
Charles W. Dryden, Benjamin O. Davis

University Alabama Press, 2002

Excellent memoir of a man from an interesting age
I initially bought this book expecting it to be similar to the other slew of WWII books out there ( The ME-109 dove at me out of the sun with guns blazing...). Instead I got an honest account of a man who wanted to fly for his country and be treated with the same respect as any other pilot. Dryden's memories and descriptions of his voyage through training to be a pilot as well as the segregated ...

Somebody Told Me: The Newspaper Stories of Rick Bragg

14 reviews
Rick Bragg

University Alabama Press, 2000

Totally Awesome!!!
I had the wonderful pleasure of meeting Rick Bragg this past weekend at the first annual Louisiana Book Festival in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and I have to say that he's a living doll! I bought this book to get his autograph and read it in one sitting when I got home. This man has a God-given gift for writing about people, places and events closest to the heart and soul. I highly recommend all ...

Storyville, New Orleans: Being an Authentic, Illustrated Account of the Notorious Red Light District

12 reviews
Al Rose

University of Alabama Press, 1978

More important now than ever.
As we cope with the loss of beautiful New Orleans, this scholarly work on the Storyville district of that wonderful town documents not only the factual matters, but also the elusive spirit and energy of the Crescent City. A must-buy book for those who want to remember what once was New Orleans, and is now our own Atlantis. May she live in memory, with all her tattered regiment, for ever.

The Churches of Christ in the 20th Century: Homer Hailey's Personal Journey of Faith (Religion & American ...

8 reviews
David Edwin, Jr. Harrell

University Alabama Press, 2000

Not Just for Homer Hailey Fans
Ed Harrell does a masterful job of relating the amazing life of Homer Hailey, one of the most dedicated, humble, and influential preachers in the churches of Christ in the 20th century. If you were fortunate enough to know this man, you will be fascinated by the story of his life and career as preacher, teacher, and author. But this book is far more than a biography of Homer Hailey. In the book, ...

The Forever Season (Deep South Books)

7 reviews
Don Keith

University Alabama Press, 2002

Don is like a spider, trapping a fly in his web.
I was a 14 year old in 8th grade when I read this compelling book " The Forever Season", by the ever-so-talented Don Keith. To me, Don was a devious spider, weaving his finely spun web (The Forever Season) and I, I was the defensless fly, struggling to get through the cobwebs of suspense and mystery, only to find myself being hooked deeper into the realm of twisted strands leading their way ...

St. Elmo (Library of Alabama Classics)

8 reviews
Augusta Jane Evans

University of Alabama Press, 1992

Classic Victorian Novel
This classic Victorian novel popular in its time is a fine example of descriptive writing at its best. It will entertain as well as educate the most prolific of readers with references to world-wide geographic locations, foreign phraseology, and descriptive paragraphs that are refreshing different to 21st century reading. A tale of romance and intrigue woven with Christian morality will ...

Alabama in the Twentieth Century (Modern South)

5 reviews
Wayne Flynt

University Alabama Press, 2006

A sober look at a dysfunctional state
Dr Flynt gives us a comprehensive view of the multitude of problems that face the state of Alabama, most of which stem, according to Flynt, from the state's atrocious 1901 Constitution. From powerful land barons, to racial inequality, to a regressive tax structure, to an incompetent and largely ineffective state legislature, to a simpering, craven state Supreme Court, the state Constitution lies ...

Back Home: Journeys through Mobile

4 reviews
Roy Hoffman

University Alabama Press, 2001

You Can Go Home Again
Roy Hoffman has disproved the theory that you can't go home again. With the turn of each page, I'm transported from central Texas to the city of my birth. His book, BACK HOME : JOURNEYS THROUGH MOBILE, is truly that. My mind journey's to Bienville Square, the Saenger Theater, Toolen High School, The Cathedral, the variety of languages that greeted my ears as I walked with my grandmother down ...

A Fire You Can't Put Out: The Civil Rights Life of Birmingham's Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth (Religion & ...

4 reviews
Andrew Manis

University Alabama Press, 2001

Winner of the 2000 Lillian Smith Book Award
The story of Fred Shuttlesworth is a powerful, dramatic story that everyone interested in the black freedom movement should read. Manis' compelling portrayal captures the spirit and spirituality of a great unsung hero. The book has been honored by the Lillian Smith Book Award, the South's oldest literary prize, and deserves a wide reading.

Confederate Florida: The Road to Olustee

4 reviews
William N. Nulty

University Alabama Press, 1994

Very Well Done!
William Nulty takes what seems to be a battle book, transforms it into a campaign study and a quick history of Confederate Florida. While doing this, he grabs our attention and holds it with a combination of excellent writing and solid facts. This very readable book, gives us a quick history of Civil War Florida and the position it assumes in the CSA. Without missing a step, we jump to the ...

Company K (Library Alabama Classics)

4 reviews
William March

University Alabama Press, 1989

a classic veteran's tale from WW1
Slaughterhouse-five, and Catch-22 both borrowed from a powerful predecessor. Company-k is a simple read, short chapters each one a character of many narratives. Each one an insightful and heart-rending tale. It would be easy to ignore Company-K and most don't know it - except that it's written by a man who was there. Hemingway glorified war made it seem almost fun - March tells it as it was. ...

13 Alabama Ghosts and Jeffrey (Jeffrey Books)

4 reviews
Kathryn Tucker Windham

University Alabama Press, 1987

Kathryn Tucker Wyndham - A State Treasure
From time to time, someone appears in our lives who holds a special place in the culture of Alabama. Those of my generation have been blessed to have Kathryn Tucker Wyndham, a great Lady of the first order, and a true state treasure. It is perhaps fitting that one finds it near impossible to place Mrs. Wyndham in a niche. She is a historian, to be sure, but she is more than that, as is ...

Dead Towns of Alabama

4 reviews
W. Stuart Harris

University of Alabama Press, 1977

Deadtowns Of Alabama
This is the most complete Book on this Subject, I have ever found. Mr. Harris did extensive research to compile such an informative and educational Book. I comand him, for his ideals, and even in a few areas, imagnation into reality. Reliable and exact, are the only words I can use to refer to the excellance of the research that went into this work of Art. Every page has information ...

My War Against the Nazis: A Jewish Soldier with the Red Army (Fire Ant Books)

4 reviews
Adam Broner

University of Alabama Press, 2007

Valuable lessons from history
This book is a valuable resource for students of Eastern European History. Adam Broner's first person narrative skillfully connects the author's personal story with the larger events surrounding his life. The wide scope and long time period provide a neutral perspective and a greater understanding of the events. Broner's personal stories draw the reader into history and bring it to life in a ...

Federal Road Through Georgia, the Creek Nation and Alabama, 1806-36

4 reviews
Henry de Leon Southerland, Jerry Elijah Brown

University of Alabama Press, 1990

Highly Valuable
Enlarged beyond its earlier incarnation as an article in "The Alabama Review", this work has emerged as a highly valuable resource for readers and researchers of early Alabama history. Utilizing maps and exhaustive primary and secondary sources, the authors present evidence of the profound impact of the Federal Road upon the Alabama in its formative years. Here, the reader will learn that ...

G Company's War: Two Personal Accounts of the Campaigns in Europe, 1944-1945

4 reviews
Bruce E. Egger, Lee Macmillan Otts

University of Alabama Press, 1992

Perhaps the best account of war as fought at this level.
Among the mind numbing number of books on world war two, this book is in my top ten. Written from two perspectives within the same company, it is a lucid, real and above all believable account of what it was like on the sharp edge of combat. A real gem!

Leaving Birmingham: Notes of a Native Son (Deep South Books)

4 reviews
Paul Hemphill

University Alabama Press, 2000

Not Just For Southerners
The reader should note that this book is not a history, but an honest reminiscence by the author. Paul Hemphill was born and raised in a Birmingham that no longer exists, and his story is a sentimental, though often melancholy, remembrance of his journey from childhood to an adulthood marked by his departure from his native city. Unlike other native sons, such as Roy Blount and Howell ...

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