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Our Land at War - A Portrait of Rural Britain 1939-45 (Paperback)
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Our Land at War - A Portrait of Rural Britain 1939-45 (Paperback)
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A rich account of the impact of the Second World War on the lives
of people living in the farms and villages of Britain. On the
outbreak of war, the countryside was invaded by service personnel
and evacuee children by the thousand; land was taken arbitrarily
for airfields, training grounds and firing ranges, and whole
communities were evicted. Prisoner-of-war camps brought captured
enemy soldiers to close quarters, and as horses gave way to
tractors and combines farmers were burdened with aggressive new
restrictions on what they could and could not grow. Land Girls and
Lumber Jills worked in fields and forests. Food - or the lack of it
- was a major preoccupation and rationing strictly enforced. And
although rabbits were poached, apples scrumped and mushrooms
gathered, there was still not enough to eat. Drawing from diaries,
letters, books, official records and interviews, Duff Hart Davis
revisits rural Britain to describe how ordinary people survived the
war years. He tells of houses turned over to military use such as
Bletchley and RAF Medmenham as well as those that became schools,
notably Chatsworth in Derbyshire. Combining both hardship and
farce, the book examines the profound changes war brought to
Britain's countryside: from the Home Guard, struggling with the
provision of ludicrous equipment, to the role of the XII Corps
Observation Unit. whose task was to enlarge rabbit warrens and
badger setts into bunkers for harassing the enemy in the event of a
German invasion; to the unexpected tenderness shown by many to
German and Italian prisoners-of-war at work on the land.
Fascinating, sad and at times hilarious, this warm-hearted book
tells great stories - and casts new light on Britain during the
war.
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