Fruits of Victory: The Women's Land Army of American in the Great War

Fruits of Victory: The Women's Land Army of American in the Great WarDescription by Elaine F. Weiss Paperback Imagine a more controversial Rosie the Rivetera generation older and more outlandish for her time. She was the farmerette of the Womans Land Army of America (WLA), doing a mans job on the home front during World War I. From 1917 to 1920 the WLA sent more than twenty thousand urban women into rural America to take over farm work after the men went off to war and food shortages threatened the nation. These women,

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the Russian government sent two brigades to fight on the side of their French allies

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James Carl Nelson tells the dramatic true story of five brilliant young soldiers from Harvard

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from Gallipoli to the exploits of Lawrence in Arabia

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account ever given of the day-to-day lives and attitudes of the nearly 4

Marshall drew on his unique firsthand experience as a soldier and a lifetime of military service to pen this forthright

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