Homer Randall 3 hr 10 min read

American doughboys battle through the trenches of the Great War in a rousing boys'-adventure serial.

Homer Randall's 1919 juvenile novel, one of the 'Army Boys' series, follows young American soldiers through slashing attacks, escapes, and hand-to-hand fighting on the Western Front. A patriotic period piece of World War I adventure written for young readers just after the Armistice. Read it for brisk, flag-waving boys'-paper war fiction from the era it depicts.

In its time

Published in 1919, during the 1910s, lost worlds and interplanetary adventure.

Reading it

3 hr 10 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).