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Based on the highly successful ABC television documentary of the same name, this book excavates the history of thousands of women who worked on farms during World War II. City-bred, in the main, and only reluctantly taken on by farming communities, the women proved themselves to be tough, resourceful and indefatigable workers whose efforts kept Australian agriculture alive at a critical time. Comprising interviews, letters, photographs, posters and original documents, this book provides a unique and neglected history of the women who grew ‘vegetables for victory’.