Sources on British farming during World War II

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Wartime Farming & Bedfordshire War Agricultural Committee

• Gangulee, N.,The Battle of the Land (Lindsay Drummond, 1943)
• Hammond, R.J., Food (History of the Second World War; United Kingdom civil ser., 3 vols) (HMSO, 1951-62)
• Hammond, R.J. Food and agriculture in Britain, 1939-45: aspects of wartime control (Stanford University Press, 1954)
• Ministry of Information (Laurie Lee), Land at War (HMSO,1945/TSO 2001)
• Montford, F., Heartbreak Farm. A farmer and his farm in wartime (Sutton Publishing,1997)
• Murray, K.A.H., Agriculture (History of the Second World War; United Kingdom civil ser.) (HMSO, 1955)
• Short, B (et al) (eds) The frontline of freedom: British farming in the Second World War (British Agricultural History Society, 2007)
• Ward, S. War in the countryside, 1939-45 (Cameron Books/David and Charles, 1988)
• Winnifrith, Sir J., The Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (George Allen & Unwin, 1962)

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