Victory Harvest: Diary of a Canadian in the Women's Land Army, 1940-1944
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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Victory Harvest: Diary of a Canadian in the Women's Land Army, 1940-1944
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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| ISBN-13: | 9780773531567 |
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| Publisher: | McGill-Queens University Press |
| Publication date: | 08/01/2006 |
| Edition description: | First Edition |
| Pages: | 248 |
| Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.70(d) |
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