A Land Girl's Tale

by Mona Macleod

Mona McLeod 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 valuable record of a time when women faved the rigorous physical challenges involved in winning the war at home.

150 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2017