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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, 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…

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…

This book is the second in the "Captain Lucy" series by Aline Harvard. The introduction describes the book as follows: "To those who made friends with Lucy Gordon on Governor’s Island it will seem a great change to find her, in this second story, so…

The second in the series by Winn Standish, Captain Jack Lorimer or the Young Athletes of Millvale High tells the story of Jack Lorimer, a young athlete. From the original sales sheet: "Jack Lorimer is a fine example of the all-around American…

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…

Sublished in 1918, Alice Blythe: Somewhere in England by Martha Trent is part of the "Somewhere in War" 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…

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…