Victory Harvest
Subtitle: Diary of a Canadian in the Women's Land Army, 1940-1944
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Published: October 1997
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 227
ISBN-13: 9780773516632
Subjects: Biography: general; British & Irish history: Second World War; Women's studies; Second World War, 1939-1945; World War II - Europe; History; Biography / Autobiography; Military; England; Historical - General; Military - World War II; Women
Description: 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.