Lumberjills : Britain's forgotten army /
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Stroud, Gloucestershire :
The History Press,
2019.
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| Edition: | [CA & US version]. |
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Cover; About the Author; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Women Didn't Wear the Trousers; 2 Domestic Servants, Shop Assistants and Hairdressers; 3 Promise of 'A Healthy, Happy Job'; 4 Green Beret, Tacketty Boots and Special Issue Undies; 5 It Felt Like Prison on Training Camp; 6 She Fells with Ease 10-Ton Trees; 7 Danger, Dust and Noise in Sawmills; 8 Heave Ho, Haulage, Tractors and Transport; 9 Notebook, Measuring Tape and Mathematics; 10 Bonfires, Charcoal Burning and Planting; 11 Thirty-Two Shillings a Week or Less
- 12 Freezing Cold Camps and Nowhere to Stay13 How We Survived All Day on Jam Sandwiches, I'll Never Know; 14 Prejudice: The Female 'Forestry Handicap'; 15 A Nomadic Life Through All Seasons; 16 Lifelong Friendship, Love and Romance; 17 Three-Quarters Off Sick for a Month; 18 Praise and Jubilation at the End of the War; 19 We Hate to Think We're Forgotten; 20 First World War: Pioneering Women in Forestry; Timeline; Notes; Bibliography
