LANDGIRLS AND THEIR IMPACT by Ann Kramer ( 9781844680917 ) - Books & Audio Books at Pickabook.co.uk

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LANDGIRLS AND THEIR IMPACT

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ISBN 10:

1844680916

ISBN 13:

9781844680917

Publisher:

PEN & SWORD BOOKS LTD

Pub. date:

1 September, 2009

Pages:

192

Description:

Using original interviews and photographs, historian Ann Kramer delves deeper to understand the role of the landgirls both during and after the Second World War. She finds out how their time as landgirls changed their lives and how they viewed their own role in society and the family.

Synopsis:

The Women's Land Army, better known as the Land Girls, were vital to the war effort from their early days in the First World War and their hard work in the Second World War until they were finally disbanded in October, 1950. Using original interviews and photographs, as well as other primary sources, Ann Kramer explores their impact from their early history to the present day with their achievements finally recognised with a Land Girls' commendation in the form of a badge. Typists, hairdressers and shop girls, as well as those who grew up tending the land, were suddenly expected to handle tractors, milk cows and plough fields with huge horses whilst the Lumber Jills (Women's Forestry Corps) felled trees. Their experiences helped ensure the nation could survive whilst its men were fighting but it is their individual stories, many recorded here for the first time, which show the reality of their lives, of how others perceived them, what they learnt, why they became Land Girls in the first place and just how liberating it could be - for the first time, women were wearing the trousers.

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