Storming Heaven: A Novel Mass market paperbound - 1988
by Giardina, Denise
- Used
In 1921, an army of 10,000 coal miners took up arms and threatened to overthrow the governments of two counties in West Virginia. They were met by U.S. Army gas and bombs. Here is the story of how it happened--and where it all went wrong.
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- Title Storming Heaven: A Novel
- Author Giardina, Denise
- Binding Mass Market Paperbound
- Edition [ Edition: Repri
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 304
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Ivy Books, Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A.
- Date May 12, 1988
- Features Maps
- Bookseller's Inventory # F08M-01790
- ISBN 9780804102971 / 080410297X
- Weight 0.34 lbs (0.15 kg)
- Dimensions 7.04 x 4.22 x 0.83 in (17.88 x 10.72 x 2.11 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Coal miners - Labor unions - West Virginia -, Coal mines and mining - West Virginia -
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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First line
From the jacket flap
Four people tell this powerful, deeply moving tale: Activist Mayor C.J. Marcum. Fierce, loveless union man Rondal Lloyd. Gutsy nurse Carrie Bishop, who loved Rondal. And lonely, Sicilian immigrant Rose Angelelli, who lost four sons to the deadly mines.
They all bear witness to nearly forgotten events of history, culminating in the final, tragic Battle of Blair Mountain -- when the United States Army greeted 10,000 unemployed pro-union miners with airplanes, bombs, and poison gas. It was the first crucial battle of a war that has yet to be won.
"Brilliant, diamond-hard fiction, heartwrenching, tough and tender." -- Los Angeles Times Book Review
