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Published in 1918, Valerie Duval: Somewhere in France is part of the Somewhere Series by Martha Trent. The hardback cover is olive, with the image of a nurse inset. The image shows a young girl, dressed in a white nurse uniform, which includes a…

A didactic school story, Tom Brown's Schooldays was intended to instill young boys in the tradition of British masculinity, through providing positive examples of tenacity, athletics, and schoolboy bravery. Thomas Hughes was an adherent of Muscular…

Thomas Hughes was an adherent of Muscular Christianity, a philosophical movement of the nineteenth century. which promoted a belief in patriotic duty, discipline, self-sacrifice, masculinity, and the moral and physical beauty of athleticism. Thomas…

Published under the pseudonym "Laura Lee Hope," The Outdoor Girls series is a product of the Stratemeyer Syndicate and was published from 1913 to 1933 by Grosset and Dunlap in hardcover with dust jacket. Volumes 7 through 23 were written by Elizabeth…

The Moving Picture Boys on French Battlefields; or, Taking Pictures for the U.S. Army is the tenth number in the Moving Picture Boys series. It is a cloth volume, illustrated. Its cover depicts two young boys operating a video camera. The cover is…

The Campfire Girls' Duty Call is the fifth in the Campfire Girls series. Created in 1909 as the female counterpart to the Boy Scouts of America, this series was produced and commissioned by the official Campfire Girls organization. This book follows…

Part of Kenneth Ward's The Boy Volunteers Books, advertised as "The Newest Boys' Books on the European War, Relating the Adventures of Two American Boys and Their Experiences in Battle and on Air Scout Duty. All Profusely Illustrated with Authentic…

Published in 1918, Marieken de Bruin: Somewhere in Belgium by Martha Trent is part of the Somewhere series. Each volume details the story of a girl in a different country during the First World War. The hardback cover is olive, with the image of a…

Published in 1918, Lucia Rudini: Somewhere in Italy by Martha Trent is part of the Somewhere series. Each volume details the story of a girl in a different country during the First World War. Cloth. Illustrated.
From the dustcover: "Around a…

Captain Lucy's Flying Ace is the sequel to Captain Lucy in France and the third book in the Captain Lucy series. The introduction promises that "the young British officer whom she helped... meets her again in this in this present story." Notably, it…