A Land Girl's Tale - Softcover

Mona Macleod

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1910895113 ISBN 13: 9781910895115

Publisher: Scotland Street Press, 2017

Synopsis

"I can see the disgust on the face of one neighbor when Jack, the farmer, asked to lend a man, produced a land girl." Mona Macleod worked in Kirkubrightshire during the second World War, providing the skilled labour needed on farms before mechanization. The girls were given heavy agricultural work in fields, with animals, carrying hundred weight sacks, sawing wood, felling trees, filling up rat holes. It was a tough way to grow up, but this illustrated memoir provides a record of a time when women faced the rigorous physical challenges involved in winning the war at home.

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About the Author:

Born in England in 1922, Mona never went back after her five years in the Land Army in Scotland. A history graduate, she taught in Edinburgh schools before becoming a freelance lecturer on aspects of Scottish culture. Her publications include Agents of Change: Scots in Poland:1800-1918, based on family papers; it has been translated into Polish and published in Warsaw. She is now 95 and attributes her good physical and mental health to hard farm work during the war.

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About this edition

• Publisher: Scotland Street Press
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1910895113
• ISBN 13: 9781910895115
• Binding: Paperback