A01=Marion Kelsey
Author_Marion Kelsey
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Product details
- ISBN 9780773531567
- Weight: 360g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 01 Aug 2006
- Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
- Publication City/Country: CA
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
Marion Kelsey lived in Hunts Point, Nova Scotia, until her death.
