Winged Defense

William Mitchell

• Paperback | Engels | Fire Ant Books
• This book is the basis for airpower doctrine in the US, and demonstrates how forward looking Gen Mitchell was even though the technology for conductin... Lees meer

All-Time Greatest Alabama Sports Stories

Benny Marshall

• Paperback | Engels | Fire Ant Books
• Highlights the finest moments of Alabama players--on the court, on the field, and on the course This collection presents 26 accounts of memorable vict... Lees meer

Grass Widow

Viola Goode Liddell

• Paperback | Engels | Fire Ant Books
• An engaging account of one woman's overcoming the Depression and small town mores. Viola Goode Liddell's short memoir tells the story of her return to... Lees meer

To the Far Side of Hell

Derrick Wright

• Paperback | Engels | Fire Ant Books
• A poignant account and analysis of the bloody battle in the Pacific. To the Far Side of Hell is the story of the World War II battle for the Pacific i... Lees meer

Simple Story of a Soldier

Samuel W Hankins

• Paperback | Engels | Fire Ant Books
• The camp, battle, and prison experiences of a common soldier This fast-paced memoir was written in 1905 by 61-year-old Samuel W. Hankins while he was ... Lees meer

Black in Selma

J L Chestnut, Julia Cass

• Paperback | Engels | Fire Ant Books
• "The autobiography of J. L. Chestnut is the story of Selma's first black lawyer and prodigal son, but it is also part of the history of the race, swee... Lees meer

Forth to the Mighty Conflict

Allen Cronenberg

• Paperback | Engels | Fire Ant Books
• Details conditions in Alabama and the role of its citizens in a time of military crisis unknown since the Civil War Alabama and its people played a co... Lees meer

On the Trail of the Maya Explorer

Steve Glassman

• Paperback | Engels | Fire Ant Books
• A Mesoamerican travel book from two perspectives and two centuries. In 1839 John Lloyd Stephens, then 31 years old, and his traveling companion, artis... Lees meer

The Packhorseman

Charles Hudson

• Paperback | Engels | Fire Ant Books
• In April 1735, twenty-year-old William MacGregor, possessing little more than a bottle of Scotch whiskey and a set of Shakespeare's plays, arrives in ... Lees meer

Truman Capote's Southern Years

Marianne M Moates

• Paperback | Engels | Fire Ant Books
• Although much is known about the mature Truman Capote--his literary genius and flamboyant life-style--details of his childhood years spent in Monroevi... Lees meer

Let Us Now Praise Famous Women

Frank Sikora

• Paperback | Engels | Fire Ant Books
• An affectionate, humorous account of small town Alabama during the civil rights era. When Frank Sikora's six-year-old daughter contracted pneumonia in... Lees meer

Gone to the Swamp

Robert Leslie Smith

• Paperback | Engels | Fire Ant Books
• To make a living here, one had to be capable, confident, clever and inventive, know a lot about survival, be able to fashion and repair tools, navigat... Lees meer

Ninety-Nine Iron

Wendell Givens

• Paperback | Engels | Fire Ant Books
• The fascinating story of the 1899 Sewanee football team's remarkable, unassailable winning streak Ninety-Nine Iron is the story of the 1899 Sewanee fo... Lees meer

East of Time

Jacob G Rosenberg

• Paperback | Engels | Fire Ant Books
• Remaining human in the face of life's greatest threat. This book is a rendezvous of history and imagination and dreams and of hopes and disenchantment... Lees meer

Nightmare on Iwo Jima

Patrick F Caruso

• Paperback | Engels | Fire Ant Books
• On February 19, 1945, the 4th and 5th Marine Divisions stormed ashore from a naval support force. Among them was green young lieutenant Pat Caruso who... Lees meer

Jubal Early's Raid on Washington 1864

Benjamin Franklin Cooling

• Paperback | Engels | Fire Ant Books
• The definitive description of the last Confederate invasion of the Union in 1864. The Civil War was in its fourth year, and the Union's victory was no... Lees meer

Nancy Batson Crews

Sarah Byrn Rickman

• Paperback | Engels | Fire Ant Books
• A riveting oral history/biography of a pioneering woman aviator. This is the story of an uncommon woman--high school cheerleader, campus queen, airpla... Lees meer

Inside Alabama

Harvey H Jackson

• Paperback | Engels | Fire Ant Books
• An affectionate, irreverent, candid look at the "Heart of Dixie" This book tells Alabama's history in a conversational style with an unapologetically ... Lees meer

The Old Beloved Path

William W Winn

• Paperback | Engels | Fire Ant Books
• The Old Beloved Path examines the lifestyles of the native American peoples of the Chattahoochee region of southeast Alabama and southwest Georgia. Or... Lees meer

Old Mobile Archaeology

Gregory A Waselkov

• Paperback | Engels | Fire Ant Books
• An archaeological guide to the earliest French settlement on the northern Gulf Coast. Archaeological excavations since 1989 have uncovered exciting ev... Lees meer

A Conquering Spirit

Gregory A Waselkov

• Paperback | Engels | Fire Ant Books
• The Fort Mims massacre changed the course of American history in many ways, not the least of which was the ensuing rise of one Andrew Jackson to the n... Lees meer

Thomas Wolfe's Civil War

Thomas Wolfe

• Paperback | Engels | Fire Ant Books
• An anthology of Thomas Wolfe's short stories, novel excerpts, and plays illuminating the Civil War This collection of Thomas Wolfe's writings demonstr... Lees meer

The Very Worst Road

• Paperback | Engels | Fire Ant Books
• The Very Worst Road contains sixteen contemporary accounts by travelers who reached Alabama along what was known as the "Old Federal Road," more a net... Lees meer

On the Trail of the Maya Explorer

Steve Glassman

• Hardcover | Engels | Fire Ant Books
• A Mesoamerican travel book from two perspectives and two centuries. In 1839 John Lloyd Stephens, then 31 years old, and his traveling companion, artis... Lees meer