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Victory Harvest: Diary of a Canadian in the Women's Land Army, 1940-1944
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Victory Harvest: Diary of a Canadian in the Women's Land Army, 1940-1944 Hardcover - 1997

by Marion Kelsey


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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.

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Based on the diary Marion Kelsey kept while in the Women's Land Army during World War II, Victory Harvest is a personal remembrance of wartime Britain. Kelsey and her husband were reunited on his quarterly leaves and the journal records their travels through much of England amid air raids, bombings, and machine-gun fire, providing a unique travelogue of Britain in the 1940s.

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  • Title Victory Harvest: Diary of a Canadian in the Women's Land Army, 1940-1944
  • Author Marion Kelsey
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 248
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher McGill-Queen's University Press, Montreal
  • Date October 1997
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated
  • ISBN 9780773516632 / 0773516638
  • Weight 1.1 lbs (0.50 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.33 x 6.29 x 0.99 in (23.70 x 15.98 x 2.51 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1940's
    • Cultural Region: British
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
  • Library of Congress subjects World War, 1939-1945, Women's Land Army (Great Britain)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2008364312
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

About the author

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