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A Land Girl's War by Joan Mary Snelling
A Land Girl's War by Joan Mary Snelling
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In April 1941 eighteen-year-old Joan Snelling, or 'Pop' to her friends, volunteered for work in the Women's Land Army. Within weeks she was duly employed as a land girl at Hoveton Fruit Farm, Norfolk. Here she undertook all sorts of farm work including learning how to drive a tractor. Joan's engaging and witty account shows that as land girls she and her friends found time amidst the hard toil to attend wartime dances and have romances with fighter pilots. Whilst Joan's memoirs detail the perils of wartime life they also provide a humorous insight into farm work, where animals are unpredictable and falling asleep at the wheel of a tractor is an occupational hazard.

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Joan Snelling was born in London in 1922. She joined the Women's Land Army in Norfolk during the Second World War and continued to live in the same village for thirty years. In 1975 Joan moved to France with her husband who had been badly injured and burned in a wartime bomber crash. He died in 1986. Today she still lives in the same French hamlet in a rural area where she is well known as a water color painter.
Release date Australia
June 1st, 2004
Audience
  • General (US: Trade)
Pages
104
Dimensions
129x198x7
ISBN-13
9781903366677
Product ID
1829511

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