Holding the Home Front: The Women's Land Army in The First World War Poppy Beginning with an overview of

Beginning with an overview of the brigade’s contributions to the war effort

who were said to have never lost a man to capture or a foot of ground that had been taken

Gertrude Bell

leaves behind Dublin

Holding the Home Front: The Women's Land Army in The First World War Poppy Beginning with an overview ofDescription by Caroline Scott Paperback In recent years the Second World Wars Land Girl has caught the public imagination. Weve seen her in films and television series and novels. We might be misremembering her, or we might have distorted her image into one that suits a twenty first century audience, but we havent forgotten. Other things have been forgotten, though. One could be forgiven for supposing that the story of the Womens Land Army starts in