Made or Broken: Football and Survival in the Georgia Woods

by Bill Lightle

Set in the tension-filled Deep South in the 1960's, "Made or Broken" follows a group of young men on their experiences at the notorious Graves Springs football camp.Lightle vividly describes how players came to endure the two weeks of humiliation and abuse in the rich swampland of Southwest Georgia through mutual support and comraderie.

232 pages, Paperback

First published June 15, 2004

About the author

I was born in Marion, Indiana, in 1957 but moved to Albany, Georgia, in 1966. I've spent most of my life in the Southeast where I wrote for newspapers and taught history and government. I few years ago, I began a thriller series - Maynard & Sinclair - set in Albany. The series is based on my experiences as a newspaper reporter for the Albany Herald in the early 1980s.

The most recent book (2019) in the series is Aucilla Bones.

Today I live and write in Fayetteville, Georgia, just south of Atlanta. My wife Phyllis is a published poet. You can find her work on Amazon as well as mine.

Thank you for considering my work.