The West Virginia Coal Wars is an accessible non-fiction account of the Mine Wars and the Battle of Blair Mountain, the Largest Labor Uprising in the History of the United States of America. It establishes the causes, chronology and principal phases of the conflict while explaining the political aims and military resources of the opposing sides.
The book places campaigns and leadership within their wider setting, including diplomacy, civilian experience, economic pressure and the settlement or memory that followed. Its historical scope is represented on HBS by West Virginia Coal Wars, 1912–1921.
