Land Girls: Women's Voices from the Wartime Farm

by Joan Mant

Book Overview

The Women's Land Army was actually founded in 1917, but it was during the Second World War that it attracted the kind of attention which assured its place in the annals of the British war effort. The Services' demands on manpower created a gap which the alternative labour of female workers had to fill. Joan Mant history draws upon the reminiscences of over 300 'land girls' (as they were affectionately known at the time), to tell the story of life...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1445619792
• ISBN13: 9781445619798
• Release Date: August 2014
• Publisher: Amberley Publishing
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 4.9" x 7.7"