A Green and Pleasant Land: How England's Gard- Ursula Buchan
A Green and Pleasant Land: How England's Gard- Ursula Buchan The wonderfully evocative story of how Britain's World War Two gardeners -- with great ingenuity, invincible good humour and extraordinary…
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A Green and Pleasant Land: How England's Gard- Ursula Buchan
The wonderfully evocative story of how Britain's World War Two gardeners -- with great ingenuity, invincible good humour and extraordinary fortitude -- dug for victory on home turf. As the Second World War began in earnest and a whole nation listened to wireless broadcasts, dug holes for Anderson shelters, counted their coupons and made do and mended, so too were they instructed to 'Dig for Victory'.Ordinary people, as well as gardening experts, rose to the challenge: gardens, scrubland, allotments and even public parks were soon helping to feed a nation deprived of fresh produce. "A Green and Pleasant Land "tells the intriguing and inspiring story of how Britain's wartime government encouraged and cajoled its citizens to grow their own fruit and vegetables.
As Ursula Buchan reveals, this practical contribution to the Home Front was tackled with thrifty ingenuity, grumbling
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