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Green Hands: IWM Wartime Classics

Autor Barbara Whitton Introducere de Alan Jeffreys
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 18 mar 2021
The year is 1943, and a month into their service as Land Girls, Bee, Anne, and Pauline are dispatched to a remote farm in rural Scotland. Here they are introduced to the realities of lending a hand on the land, and grueling work and inhospitable weather makes it a struggle to keep their spirits high. Soon one of the girls falters, and Bee and Pauline receive a new posting to a Northumberland dairy farm. 

Based on Barbara Whitton’s own wartime experiences, Green Hands details life for Britain’s women volunteers, illuminating their friendships, daily struggles, and romantic intrigues with intimacy and careful nuance. Originally published in 1943 and repackaged here with a contextual introduction by an Imperial War Museums historian, Whitton’s autobiographical novel paints a sometimes funny, sometimes bleak picture of her wartime past. 
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781912423262
ISBN-10: 191242326X
Pagini: 224
Dimensiuni: 127 x 197 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.2 kg
Editura: Unicorn Publishing Group
Colecția Imperial War Museums
Seria IWM Wartime Classics


Notă biografică

Barbara Whitton is the pseudonym for Margaret Hazel Watson (1921–2016). During World War II, she served as a volunteer for Britain in the the Women’s Land Army (WLA), the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (FANY), and the Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) as a driver. She chronicled her wartime experience in stories and novels. 

Recenzii

"Terrific."

“Charming and evocative. . . . It offers a light-hearted snapshot into [Whitton’s] experiences, including the friendships and romances, as the story follows three young and inexperienced Land Girls. The author’s evident enjoyment of this period in her life shines through but those less rosy aspects are also confronted, including the back-breaking nature of the work and the sexism many women faced as they took on a variety of roles, traditionally performed by men."

"Witty, warm and hugely endearing, Barbara Whitton's Green Hands is full of engaging characters, burgeoning friendships and pure hard-graft. A lovely novel for anyone interested in wartime Britain, it leaves the reader with renewed admiration for the indefatigable work of the Women's Land Army."

"Tales from the home front are always more authentic when written from personal experience, as is the case here. Barbara Whitton evokes the highs and lows, joys and agonies of being a Land Girl in the Second World War."