The War Against the Vets: The World War I Bonus Army During the Great Depression by Tuccille, Jerome
The War Against the Vets: The World War I Bonus Army During the Great Depression by Tuccille, Jerome

The War Against the Vets: The World War I Bonus Army During the Great Depression

"Who Murdered the Vets?" writer Ernest Hemingway demanded in an impassioned article about the deaths of hundreds...
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Author: Jerome Tuccille
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The War Against the Vets: The World War I Bonus Army During the Great Depression by Tuccille, Jerome

The War Against the Vets: The World War I Bonus Army During the Great Depression

$402.11
The War Against the Vets: The World War I Bonus Army During the Great Depression by Tuccille, Jerome

The War Against the Vets: The World War I Bonus Army During the Great Depression

$402.11
Author: Jerome Tuccille
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description
"Who Murdered the Vets?" writer Ernest Hemingway demanded in an impassioned article about the deaths of hundreds of former soldiers. Their fate came as part of the larger and often overlooked story of veterans of the Great War and their deplorable treatment by the government they once served.

Three years earlier, under orders from President Herbert Hoover, General Douglas MacArthur led the U.S. military through the streets of the nation's capital against an encampment of veterans and their families. The vets were suffering the ravages of the Great Depression and seeking an early payment of promised war bonuses. Tanks, troops, and cavalry burned down tents and leveled campsites in a savage and lethal effort to disperse the protesters, resulting in the murder of several demonstrators.

The administration of President Franklin D. Roosevelt subsequently shipped the vets to distant work camps in the Florida Keys, where they were housed in flimsy tent cities that fell prey to a hurricane of which the authorities had been given ample warning. It was in reaction to the hundreds of bodies left in the storm's wake that Hemingway penned his provocative words.

The War Against the Vets is the first book about the Bonus Army to describe in detail the political battles that threatened to tear the country apart, as well as the scandalous treatment of the World War I vets.


Author: Jerome Tuccille
Publisher: Potomac Books
Published: 04/01/2018
Pages: 264
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.19lbs
Size: 9.50h x 7.19w x 0.96d
ISBN: 9781612349336

About the Author
Jerome Tuccille (1937-2017) is the author of more than thirty books, including bestselling, highly acclaimed biographies and histories. His biography Gallo Be Thy Name was named one of the best business books of 2009 by the University of California Library System, and his biography of Donald Trump, Trump, was a New York Times bestseller. He has also written biographies of Rupert Murdoch, Alan Greenspan, Barry Diller, and others, as well as several novels.


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