Horace Porter 4 hr 2 min read

Young aviator scouts fly into the thick of the Great War in Germany, stolen papers, luminous kites, carrier pigeons, and daring escapes through fire and fog.

Horace Porter's 1915 juvenile adventure is a fast, patriotic tale of boy aeroplane scouts in wartime, written as the war raged. Brisk, illustrated period fiction. Read it for a rousing, flag-waving air-adventure serial straight from the home front of the First World War.

In its time

Published in 1915, during the 1910s, lost worlds and interplanetary adventure.

Reading it

4 hr 2 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).