- Paperback: 248 pages
- Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press; New edition edition (Aug 1 2006)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0773531564
- ISBN-13: 978-0773531567
- Product Dimensions: 22.4 x 15.8 x 1.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 358 g
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #409,087 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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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 through the eyes of a young Canadian. Financed by a cousin, Kelsey travelled to England to be with her soldier husband. She joined the Women's Land Army and spent the next four years planting crops, milking cows, and driving a tractor. Through Kelsey's diary the reader discovers - as Kelsey did - that agricultural work was vital to the overall war effort in Britain. Kelsey's observations range from descriptions of the bombing raids on civilian populations to more personal accounts of the difficulties of obtaining a bath. She and her husband were reunited on his quarterly leaves and Victory Harvest 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. Kelsey's tour of duty was cut short when her husband was seriously wounded by shrapnel at Falaise in 1944. Marion Kelsey's indomitable character and enthusiasm shine through her writing and, as a woman and a Canadian, she provides a new perspective on the war.
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Marion Kelsey lived in Hunts Point, Nova Scotia, until her death.
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Excellent Book about a Real Land Girl,
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This review is from: Victory Harvest: Diary of a Canadian in the Women's Land Army, 1940-1944 (Hardcover)
During the beginning of War-Time Britain young women were asked to join the Woman's Land Army so the men could fight. Marion Kelsey, a Canadian, who came to England to be near her husband answered the call and joined. This book by Ms. Kelsey tell her adventures as a Land Girl. This is a great book for anyone who would like to learn more about the changes of women's roles during the war.
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This review is from: Victory Harvest: Diary of a Canadian in the Women's Land Army, 1940-1944 (Hardcover)
During the beginning of War-Time Britain young women were asked to join the Woman's Land Army so the men could fight. Marion Kelsey, a Canadian, who came to England to be near her husband answered the call and joined. This book by Ms. Kelsey tell her adventures as a Land Girl. This is a great book for anyone who would like to learn more about the changes of women's roles during the war.
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