Suck A Rock

About the Book

Readers will find Suck A Rock a thrilling spellbinding adventure mixed with romance. Wounded four times and highly decorated he quietly returned to civilian life. In 1951 he graduated from Auburn University in Architecture, which he practiced in southwest Georgia for more than thirty-years.
He now resides in north Florida with his wife of more than 50 years.

About the Author

Daniel Collier Houston a.k.a. "Alabama" was born in Montgomery, AL May 21, 1923 and in 1939 at age 16 left home and hitchhiked to Canada where he enlisted in the Canadian Army. His grandmother was part Cherokee and told him that an Indian could run 100 miles without food or water by sucking on a rock. That is why this book is named "Suck a Rock," This book outlines the 5 plus years that he fought in WW II.

Alabama also served with the British Army, was trained as a commando and went on numerous missions into Norway and France. On one such mission when things went terribly wrong he stole a German fighter aircraft and flew it out of occupied France. He did work for British Intelligence (MI5), had tea with the Queen and trained U.S. Marine Sergeants at Commando School before Pearl Harbor.

Serving with the U.S. Army during the Africa Campaign, sniping with a 55-cal Boyes Anti-Tank Rifle he took out five high ranking German officers and then one by one the ten-man patrol the Germans sent over the mountain to get him. Working for the Provost Marshal he was made a special M.P. and rode a Harley Davidson motorcycle where he led convoys to the ports for the invasion of Sicily and Italy. He took a ten-day leave with an Army Nurse and toured North Africa on the Harley. He fell in love and was engaged to marry a girl in Tunis but had to leave for the invasion of Italy.