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Shell-shock did not exist as a documented category of disability until February 1915, when psychologist Charles Myers published a paper in The Lancet entitled “A Contribution To The Study of Shell Shock: Being An Account of Three Cases of Loss of…

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 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 guide was intended for young children to provide first aid to one another during the Second World War.

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…