Victory Harvest: Diary of a Canadian in the Women's Land Army, 1940-1944Kelsey'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. |
Contents
Canada to England | 3 |
Nunningham | 27 |
Southwater and Nunningham | 81 |
Green Farm | 107 |
Sutton | 129 |
Tractor School | 136 |
Broomlye | 152 |
Camber Castle Farm | 160 |
Swanley | 179 |
Great Ridge Farm | 210 |
Epilogue | 223 |
Other editions - View all
Victory Harvest: Diary of a Canadian in the Women's Land Army, 1940-1944 Marion Kelsey Limited preview - 1997 |
Victory Harvest: Diary of a Canadian in the Women's Land Army, 1940-1944 Marion Kelsey No preview available - 1997 |
Victory Harvest: Diary of a Canadian in the Women's Land Army, 1940-1944 Marion Kelsey No preview available - 1997 |
Common terms and phrases
afternoon Aldershot Alec asked Auxiliary Territorial Service barn Basingstoke beautiful binder blossom bombs breakfast Brian Camber Castle Canadian Charlie's chickens clean Clovelly corn cottage cow stalls cycle Dado dark dinner door drive drove East Sussex Eastbourne England feel felt field fire friends garden gone Green Farm harvest heard hedge hills John Kath and Walter knew Land Army Land Girl later learned leave London looked lovely lunch Marion milking morning Moss never night Nunningham o'clock oats Old Ted pails Penny Percy planes plough raids rain returned road Royal Montreal Regiment Saturday Seaford soldiers Southwater stack Staplehurst stopped Sunday Sussex Swanley talking telephoned thing told tonight took Tractor School train trees trip turned Uckfield waiting walked wash watch week weekend wheat Winchelsea Women's Land Army wood young