Draws on an actual event--five German officers' visit to the southern U.S. during the late 1930s--to develop an extraordinary journey into historical legend, in which Rommel himself travels in the U.S

Rommel and the Rebel

Literature & Fiction

Wells, Lawrence

United States

DOUBLEDAY

This wonderful, wacky tale of the first "All Star Blue-Gray Football Game" and the picaresque company of prostitutes, ministers, gamblers and dotty Civil War vets it attracts is sure to please Civil War buffs and football fans alike. 10,000 print.

Let the Band Play Dixie

Draws on an actual event--five German officers' visit to the U.S. in the late 1930s--to create an engaging journey into historical legend, in which "the Desert Fox" travels incognito to the U.S. to study Civil War battle tactics

Bantam]

Ole Miss Football: A Photo History

Yoknapatawpha Pr

Contains over 600 historical photos, which record the twelve major college teams of the South (Alabama, Arkansas, Auburn, Florida, FSU, Georgia, LSU, SMU, Tennessee, Texas, UNC and Vanderbilt).

Football Powers Of The South: University of Alabama Crimson Tide

Sports & Outdoors

Football (American)

Contains over 600 historical photos, which record the twelve major college teams of the South (Alabama, Arkansas, Auburn, Florida, FSU, Georgia, LSU, SMU, Tennessee, Texas, UNC and Vanderbilt).

Football Powers Of The South: Louisiana State University Fighting Tigers (LSU)

Yoknapatawpha Press

From the college football stadiums of the South to enshrinement in the Songwriters Hall of Fame in New York--- I'm Jim Weatherly and this is my story.
I began writing songs as a boy in a small town in Mississippi during the first decade of rock and roll in the 1950s, a path that would eventually lead to my being inducted into five different music halls of fame
As I continued to write songs during his youth, I was also excelling in sports, quarterbacking my high school football team to conference championships and statewide recognition.
I had a rock and roll band throughout my high school days and I was the lead singer for the group. Music and sports have always been my two greatest passions.
I became a scholarship football player at the University of Mississippi in Oxford, just half an hour's drive from my hometown of Pontotoc. I continued to play music during my college years at Ole Miss with my rock and roll band. I would perform with my group after football season and in the spring and summer, and we became one of the more popular bands in Mississippi and the surrounding states.
As a college sophomore in 1962, I was the backup quarterback on the only unbeaten and untied team in Ole Miss history. The Rebels were Southeastern Conference champions, national champions and won the Sugar Bowl against Arkansas in New Orleans that season.
It was during the 1962 football season that the University of Mississippi became a battleground of the civil rights movement with much turmoil surrounding the admission of the first black student, James Meredith. On September 29, 1962, a riot ensued to prevent the admission of Meredith. There were multiple injuries and two deaths that night.
I played two more seasons for Ole Miss as the Rebels continued their winning ways, and I also continued to write songs and play music.
After college, my band, the Gordian Knot, traveled to Los Angeles to look for a record deal. When that didn't pan out the band split up and I was on my own. I kept searching and searching for someone who liked my songs enough to give me a publishing deal.
After a tremendous struggle, I eventually found someone who loved my songs and promised to "push them through the sky." I then began to have songwriting success with several Rhythm &amp; Blues artists who recorded my songs as well as country, jazz and gospel artists.
Gladys Knight and the Pips were the musical key to my success. "Neither One of Us," "Midnight Train to Georgia," and "You're the Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me" were all chart-toppers for the group. The first two of those were Grammy winners.
This is a small portion of an uplifting story of perseverance and my discovery of my own self-worth. Sometimes I can't believe it happened to me.

Rommel's Peace, a sequel to Rommel and the Rebel, is based on Field Marshal Erwin Rommel's attempt to arrange a ceasefire with the Allied High Command. The date is several weeks before D-Day. When Hitler rejects Rommel's request to draw up a surrender plan, the field marshal acts on his own. He sends Lt. Max Speigner, an American intelligence officer being held at a German POW camp, to deliver a ceasefire offer to England. Eisenhower suspects the Desert Fox is stalling for time, but Prime Minister Churchill agrees to meet with Rommel. Meanwhile, the D-Day invasion has begun. British commandos use the unsuspecting American as bait to assassinate Rommel. Speigner is caught in the middle as events spiral out of control.

Rommel's Peace

Contemporary

ROMMEL AND THE REBEL is a military adventure about the legend that Field Marshal Erwin Rommel toured American civil war battlefields before WWII. In 1937, Rommel, then a Wehrmacht infantry colonel, visits the battlefield park at Brice's Crossroads in Mississippi to study the tactics of Confederate cavalry general Nathan B. Forrest. Rommel's guide and interpreter is a U.S. Army lieutenant of German descent, Lt. Max Speigner. In 1941, when Rommel's panzers are pounding the British army in North Africa, Speigner is attached to the British military intelligence. He recognizes maneuvers inspired by Forrest and launches a desperate duel of wits with the Desert Fox.

Rommel and the Rebel (Abridged Edition)

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Rommel and the Rebel

Let the Band Play Dixie

Rommel and the Rebel

Ole Miss Football: A Photo History

Football Powers Of The South: University of Alabama Crimson Tide

Football Powers Of The South: Louisiana State University Fighting Tigers (LSU)

Let the Band Play Dixie

Rommel and the Rebel

Rommel's Peace

Rommel and the Rebel (Abridged Edition)