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ABOUT THIS BOOK

PUBLISHER: Scotland Street Press

FORMAT: Paperback

ISBN: 9781910895115

RRP: £9.99

PAGES: 150

PUBLICATION DATE:
January 24, 2024

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A Land Girl’s Tale: Concentrating on Winning the War

Mona McLeod

?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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Mona McLeod

Born in 1922, Mona spent 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, which has been translated into Polish and published in Warsaw.