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Victory Harvest

Diary of a Canadian in the Women's Land Army, 1940-1944

by (author) Marion Kelsey

Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Initial publish date
Sep 1997
Category
Canada
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780773516632
    Publish Date
    Sep 1997
    List Price
    $110.00
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780773531567
    Publish Date
    Aug 2006
    List Price
    $34.95
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780773566835
    Publish Date
    Sep 1997
    List Price
    $27.95

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Description

Kelsey's observations range from descriptions of the Battle of Britain from the ground, bombing raids on civilian populations, and a meeting with a possible German spy, to more personal accounts of the difficulties of obtaining a bath. She and her husband were reunited on his quarterly leaves and the journal records their travels through much of England, Ireland and Scotland amid air raids, bombings, and machine-gun fire, providing a unique travelogue of Britain in the 1940s.

Through Kelsey's depiction of life the Women's Land Army the reader discovers -- as Kelsey came to realize -- that agricultural work was vital to the overall war effort in Britain.

About the author

Marion Kelsey lived in Hunts Point, Nova Scotia, until her death.

Marion Kelsey's profile page