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Holding the Home Front: The Women´s Land Army in The First World War
Caroline Radula-Scott
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Description for Holding the Home Front: The Women´s Land Army in The First World War
Paperback.
In recent years the Second World War's land girl has caught the public imagination. Weve seen her in films, television series and novels. We might be misremembering her, we might have distorted her image into one that suits a twenty-first century audience, but we haven't forgotten. Other things have been forgotten, though. One could be forgiven for supposing that the story of the Women's Land Army starts in 1939\. But its a much older and more complicated history. British agricultural policy during the First World War was held up as a success story; coming through a great national emergency, ... Read more
In recent years the Second World War's land girl has caught the public imagination. Weve seen her in films, television series and novels. We might be misremembering her, we might have distorted her image into one that suits a twenty-first century audience, but we haven't forgotten. Other things have been forgotten, though. One could be forgiven for supposing that the story of the Women's Land Army starts in 1939\. But its a much older and more complicated history. British agricultural policy during the First World War was held up as a success story; coming through a great national emergency, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Pen & Sword Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2020
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Barnsley, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781526781499
SKU
V9781526781499
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Ref
99-2
About Caroline Radula-Scott
After completing her Ph.D in History at Durham, Caroline Scott joined an investment banks graduate training scheme and spent two years working in the City. Since then she has worked as a market analyst for a diamond trading company, in London, Belgium and latterly France. In her spare time she continues to enjoy historical research. She has transcribed battalion War ... Read more
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