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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…

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…

The Hydra was launched in April 1917 and stopped publication in 1918, serving as a hospital magazine for the soldiers at Craiglockhart Hospital. Wilfred Owen served as one of its editors, while Siegfried Sassoon's poems "Break of Day" and "Base…

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…

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…

In April 1917, Sassoon’s company with the Royal Welsh Fusiliers supported a French assault on the supposedly secure German defenses, known as the Hindenburg Line. His 1917 poem “The Rear-Guard (Hindenburg Line, April, 1917)” is based upon this…

In this speech, given in front of the Royal Society of Medicine, Rivers explains the process of being shell-shocked as repression, a means of obscuring mental content from memory and rendering memory inaccessible. However, when trauma was…

This piece of ragtime music satirizes the stereotypic movements of those diagnosed with shellshock. For voice and piano. The lyrics of this musical arrangement reads thus: Verse 1:Over there, somewhere in France, our boys have learned a brand-new…

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…

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…