A-Train: Memoirs of a Tuskegee Airman | 
 enlarge | Author: Charles W. Dryden
Publisher: University Alabama Press
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 675774
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 432
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.9
Dimensions (in): 9.6 x 6.5 x 1.5
ISBN: 0817308563
Dewey Decimal Number: 940.544973
EAN: 9780817308568
ASIN: 0817308563
Publication Date: April 30, 1997
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Move over "Scarlet Letter" March 27, 2005
I had the opportunity to read this book. From the moment of the first word to the very last word, the book draws you in to read more. The graphic descriptions can take you to the other side of the world and stand next to the author on his travels. You know what it was like be black during the "Jim Crow" days on the trains in the south. Granted that my 25 years never saw the ugly side of America, his visual imagery is just so vivid that I seriously think they should dump "Scarlett Letter" and place this book on the reading lists of High School Students.
Fighting Germany and America. April 20, 2000
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
Charles Dryden's book forces people to see the trials and tribulations encountered by black servicemen and women during WWII. I was shocked to read about the different encounters with 'Jim Crow' that Dryden and his peers waded through during their service years. A must for anybody curious about WWII, the Tuskegee Airmen or about the fight for civil rights in America.
A definitive study in courage December 16, 1999
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
I meet Col. Dryden when he gave a talk about his experiences and his book. I then read the book a felt a tremendous respect for the author and all the Tuskeegee Airmen. Col. Dryden tells his personal story in a way that made me feel as though I was there with him the whole time. The challanges of blacks in America in his story left a powerful impact on me, the courage the author displayed is an insperation. A-Train is very well written and reads easily. It is an powerful story that left me feeling inadequate and ashamed to be white. I had the oportunity to meet Col. Dryden again and sought him out just to shake his hand again, knowing him from his book, it was hard to hide my emotions.
Every young African American boy should read this book. December 20, 1998
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
Every young African American boy should read this book. It is an inspiration.
Excellent memoir of a man from an interesting age May 21, 1998
19 out of 20 found this review helpful
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 and de-segregated Air Force are interesting and honest. Dryden't narrative is not the heart-pounding, can't-put-the-book down type but rather the story of a man who, faced with tremendous adversity from his own society and country, persevered. There is no bitterness in Dryden's story, and I put the book down tremendously impressed by his belief in himself, in his religion and his friend. It's a good book
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