Victory Harvest
Diary of a Canadian in the Women's Land Army, 1940-1944
- Publisher
- McGill-Queen's University Press
- Initial publish date
- Sep 1997
- Category
- Canada
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780773516632
- Publish Date
- Sep 1997
- List Price
- $125.00
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780773531567
- Publish Date
- Aug 2006
- List Price
- $34.95
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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.