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MARION KELSEY - Victory Harvest. Diary of a Canadian in the Women's Land Army, 1940-1944

Title: Victory Harvest. Diary of a Canadian in the Women's Land Army, 1940-1944
Description: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, 1997. Pp: 227. 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. ISBN: 9780773516632. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

Keywords: 9780773516632

Price: EUR 7.50 = appr. US$ 8.15 Seller: De Slegte
- Book number: 98168

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