Word: anglian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Spring Offensive opens with a cast of East Anglian farmers and tradesmen organizing their local government for the land reclamation task. With the homely talk of people transacting their everyday affairs, they plan their campaign, put it into action. The rest of the tale is told through the eyes of a small boy evacuated from the city. He sees one old farm, gone to pot since World War I, rehabilitated with the aid of pooled machinery and labor. He learns that there must be no more of this business of farming the land properly only in wartime...
Died. Prince Alexander Obolensky, 24, Russian-born British Air Force pilot; in a plane crash when landing at an East Anglian airport, England...