Fruits of Victory: The Women's Land Army of American in the Great War Autobiography Edward Neville-Ashford

Edward Neville-Ashford

and the group of diverse characters from different backgrounds has to try to come together in order to survive

sometimes with devastating consequences

by Richard Slotkin

Fruits of Victory: The Women's Land Army of American in the Great War Autobiography Edward Neville-AshfordDescription 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,