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The Bonus Army : An American Epic
Paul Dickson, Thomas B. Allen
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| #1448556 in Books | 2004-12-01 | 2004-12-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 242.32 x33.53 x6.36l, | File type: PDF | 368 pages||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Very Engrossing|By Kindle Customer|My husband is a vet from the recent war in Iraq so this book was especially interesting to me. I'm ashamed to say I didn't know much about the WWI bonus marchers before reading this book and didn't even know this happened before buying this book. Now I want to read more, not because this book wasn't thorough but because it was so fascinating I|From Publishers Weekly|Before the Million Man March, the Million Mom March or Martin Luther King, Jr.'s March on Washington, there was the Bonus Expeditionary Force (BEF): 45,000 WWI vets who, in 1932, swarmed Washington, D.C., in freight cars, crank-start jalop
In the summer of 1932, at the height of the Depression, some forty-five thousand veterans of World War I descended on Washington, D.C., from all over the country to demand the bonus promised them eight years earlier for their wartime service. They lived in shantytowns, white and black together, and for two months they protested and rallied for their cause―an action that would have a profound effect on American history.
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