Cultivating Victory: The Women's Land Army and the Victory Garden Movement

Cultivating Victory: The Women's Land Army and the Victory Garden MovementDescription By Cecilia Gowdy Wygant Paperback During the First and Second World Wars, food shortages reached critical levels in the Allied nations. The situation in England, which relied heavily on imports and faced German naval blockades, was particularly dire. Government campaigns were introduced in both Britain and the United States to recruit individuals to work on rural farms and to raise gardens in urban areas. These recruits were primarily

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The two-volume book chronicles and explains the historical events of the Great War through photos taken by the author one hundred years later

volunteered in the hospitals and canteens and served in the air and on the high seas

Maud has acquired a reputation—and a criminal record—for interrupting politicians’ speeches with pointed questions they’d rather ignore

the book ranges widely

she glided for two miles and landed at Hornell

and planted gardens in their trenches and billets

Deployed throughout France

and George Grosz is so revolted by the violence on the streets of Berlin that he decides everything is meaningless

Qawuqji made a daring escape from Allied-occupied Berlin

To Conquer Hell is gripping in its accounts of combat