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The Wartime Garden: Digging for Victory

By Twigs Way

Book information

Publisher
Osprey Publishing Ltd
Year
2015
ISBN
9781784420512, 9781784420086, 9781784420529
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
17 MB (17748257 bytes)
Series
Shire Library
Pages
\0
Time added
2023-01-09 00:50:39
History; Nonfiction; HIS015000; HIS054000

Description

'This War is a Food War...' In 1941 Lord Woolton, Minister for Food, was determined that the Garden Front would save England: 'Dig for Victory' was the slogan, digging for dinner the reality. With food imports dwindling the number of allotments grew, millions opted to 'Spend an Hour with a Hoe' instead of an hour in a queue, and the upper classes turned lawns, tennis courts and stately gardens over to agriculture. The national diet was transformed, with swedes grown in the place of oranges and hapless children sucking on carrot lollies, evacuees grew their own meals and bomb sites sprouted allotments. Vegetables ruled the airwaves with Mr Middleton's 'In Your Garden' whilst Home Guard potatoes became the favourites of the Kitchen Front. This is a fully illustrated look at the time when gardening saved Britain.

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