What happens when democracy is denied? For a group of GIs after World War 2 the answer was do the right thing. Then when that didn’t work they did what they had been taught. They took to arms. The Battle of Athens. Right here on Historia

The Fighting Bunch: The Battle of Athens and How World War II Veterans Won the Only Successful Armed Rebellion Since the Revolution 

Other books by Chris DeRose:

* Star Spangled Scandal: Sex, Murder, and the Trial that Changed America

* Founding Rivals: Madison vs. Monroe, The Bill of Rights, and The Election that Saved a Nation

* The Presidents' War: Six American Presidents and the Civil War That Divided Them

* Congressman Lincoln

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