Sharpen the Sickle
Groves, Reg
For many years, farm workers fought to rescue themselves from bleak, soul-destroying poverty.Their victories and their bitterest defeats, from the cruel treatment of the Tolpuddle Martyrs to the false dawn of the Second World War are recounted in Sharpen the Sickle.'It is the history of the awakening of the exploited rural poor. It shows us the times, the way workers and their families lived. Every page brings alive, the privation and bitterne...