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Victory harvest : diary of a Canadian in the Women's Land Army, 1940-1944 / Marion Kelsey.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kelsey, Marion, 1912-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Kelsey, Marion, 1912-.
- Kelsey, Marion.
- Women's Land Army (Great Britain).
- World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Canadian.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- World War, 1939-1945--Women--Great Britain.
- World War, 1939-1945--War work--Great Britain.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 227 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 1997.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Front Matter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Abbreviations
- Canada to England
- Nunningham
- Southwater and Nunningham
- Green Farm
- Sutton
- Tractor School
- Broomlye
- Camber Castle Farm
- Swanley
- Great Ridge Farm
- Epilogue
- Notes:
- Maps on lining papers.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-85473-9
- 9786612854736
- 0-7735-6683-X
- OCLC:
- 732600879
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