A Green and Pleasant Land: How England's Gardeners Fought the Second World War

by Ursula Buchan

Book Overview

SHORTLISTED FOR INSPIRATIONAL BOOK OF THE YEAR AT THE 2014 GARDEN MEDIA GUILD AWARDS.

The wonderfully evocative story of how Britain's World War Two gardeners - with great ingenuity, invincible good humour and extraordinary fortitude - dug for victory on home turf.

A Green and Pleasant Land tells the intriguing and inspiring story of how Britain's wartime government encouraged and cajoled its citizens...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0099558661
• ISBN13: 9780099558668
• Release Date: May 2014
• Publisher: Windmill Books
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.0" x 7.7"