{"product_id":"victory-harvest-diary-of-a-canadian-in-the-womens-land-army-1940-1944-9780773531567","title":"Victory Harvest: Diary of a Canadian in the Women's Land Army, 1940-1944","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Marion Kelsey\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: McGill-Queen's University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Historical\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBased on the diary Marion Kelsey kept while in the Women's Land Army during World War II, \u003ci\u003eVictory Harvest\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eKelsey'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 \u003ci\u003eVictory Harvest\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMarion 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.","brand":"McGill-Queen's University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47969738129559,"sku":"9780773531567","price":3056.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780773531567.webp?v=1782923695","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/victory-harvest-diary-of-a-canadian-in-the-womens-land-army-1940-1944-9780773531567","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}