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The Yanks Are Starving: A Novel of the Bonus Army

The Yanks Are Starving: A Novel of the Bonus Army

Author(s): Glen Craney

Location(s): France, Washington DC

Genre(s): Fiction, Historical

Era(s): Early 20th century

In 1932, a charismatic hobo led 20,000 jobless American WWI veterans into Washington, D.C., only to be driven out of the city with tanks and gas. The novel unfolds the events that led to this confrontation through the experiences of eight Americans who survived the fighting in France in 1918 and came together again during the Great Depression to decide the fate of the nation on the brink of upheaval.

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