The Fighting Bunch: The Battle of Athens
by Chris DeRose
- Used
- as new
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- As New/As New
- ISBN 10
- 125026619X
- ISBN 13
- 9781250266194
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About This Item
Bill White and the young men of McMinn County answered their nation's call after Pearl Harbor. They won the freedom of the world and returned to find that they had lost it at home. A corrupt political machine was in charge, protected by violent deputies, funded by racketeering, and kept in place by stolen elections- the worst allegations of voter fraud ever reported to the Department of Justice, according to the U.S. Attorney General. To restore free government, McMinn's veterens formed the nonpartisan GI ticket to oppose the machine at the next election. On Election Day, August 1, 1946, the GI's and their supporters found themselves outgunned, assaulted, arrested, and intimidated. Deputies seized ballot boxes and brought them back to the jail. White and a group of GIs, "The Fighting Bunch"- men who survived Guadalcanal, the Bulge, and Normandy- armed themselves and demanded a fair count. When they were refused the most basic rights they had fought for, the men, all of whom beleived they had seen the end of the war, returned to the battlefield and risked their lives one last time.
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- Bookseller
- Casa Pacifica (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 192
- Title
- The Fighting Bunch
- Author
- Chris DeRose
- Format/Binding
- As New
- Book Condition
- New
- Jacket Condition
- As New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 125026619X
- ISBN 13
- 9781250266194
- Publisher
- St. Martin's PRess
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2020
- Pages
- 336
- Bookseller catalogs
- Politics; American History;
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