1930: The Orphans of the Revolution

More than a military rebellion, the Prestes Column was one of the most extraordinary revolutionary marches ever to take place in Brazil. In 1930: THE ORPHANS OF THE REVOLUTION, journalist Domingos Meirelles follows the lieutenants of the Prestes Column from their exile in 1927 until their clandestine return to Brazil to launch the movement that deposed President Washington Luís. In this comprehensive research on the conspiracy that gave rise to the 1930 Revolution, the book analyzes the period immediately following the Prestes Column, a movement Meirelles addressed in *The Nights of the Great Bonfires*—which recounts the origins of the July 5, 1924, rebellion, when a group of young Army lieutenants who had participated in the failed uprising at Copacabana Fort in 1922 stormed the São Paulo Public Force barracks.