Victory Harvest: Diary of a Canadian in the Womens Land Army, 1940-1944
by Marion Kelsey
Category: History

Based on the diary of Canadian Marion Kelsey (now living in Nova Scotia in her 80s), which she kept while in the 6,000-strong (by 1940) Women's Land Army to harvest crops during World War II. This memoir of wartime Britain conveys a sense of the conditions under which they lived. Yet despite the air raids, bombings, meeting with a possible German spy, and serious wounding of her husband--which cut short her tour of duty--, individual pride and national unity of purpose dominate. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR