A fabulous slice of wartime nostalgia, a facsimile edition of the manual
used by the Land Girls during the Second World War. With millions of men
away to fight in the Second World War Britain was struggling for labour.
In order to replace the agricultural workers now fighting the Nazis, the
Women's Land Army (originally founded in the First World War) was
relaunched in June 1939 by the Ministry of Labour. The majority of the
Land Girls already lived in the countryside but more than a third came
from London and the industrial cities of the north of England. By the
end of the war over 100,000 women of the WLA or 'Land Girls' as they
were more affectionately known, had helped feed the nation in its
darkest hour. First published in 1941, LAND GIRL was a practical guide
for the city slickers who were recruited into the Women's Land Army and
sent to work on farms in the English countryside to replace the men who
had joined up. An amazing period piece, hundreds of thousands of copies
were printed and sold and it became one of the year's best selling
books.