Author: Grant, Ian and Maddren, Nicholas,
Title: THE COUNTRYSIDE AT WAR.
Description: Jupiter, London, 1975, 1st edn., 128pp, half tone photo pictorial half title, half tone photo pictorial double title, cartoons, facsimiles and numerous half tone photo ills. in text, green cloth lettered in silver at spine, coloured pictorial dustwrapper, (10 x 7.5 " approx.), an account of farming and the countryside of Great Britain during WW2, a time when the horse was the main power source rather than the tractor, when more and more demands were made on productivity with fewer skilled farmworkers being available, when evacuees from the potential invasion area of the British Isles had to be catered for, with the appearance of anti-invasion defences of pill-boxes and guns, with the Women's Land Army appearing to work the fields and with great acreages of land being taken over for airfields, lightly rubbed at extrems., dustwrapper: price clipped, very good plus in a very good plus dustwrapper,

Keywords: war ww2 home front womens land army pill boxes defence food productivity airfields refugees evacuees


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