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Victory Harvest
Marion Kelsey
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Description for Victory Harvest
Paperback. Based on the diary Marion Kelsey kept while in the Women's Land Army during World War II, this is a personal remembrance of wartime Britain through the eyes of a young Canadian. Num Pages: 248 pages, 32 illustrations. BIC Classification: HBG; HBWQ; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 145 x 18. Weight in Grams: 348.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press Canada
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
Montreal, Canada
ISBN
9780773531567
SKU
V9780773531567
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1
About Marion Kelsey
Marion Kelsey lived in Hunts Point, Nova Scotia, until her death.
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