Kenneth Ward 2 hr 40 min read

Two American boys caught in Europe by the Great War enlist and take to the seas with the submarine fleet, viewing the fighting from beneath the waves in a wartime boys' adventure.

Kenneth Ward's 1918 novel is a patriotic juvenile war-adventure of the First World War. Fast, earnest, of its era. Read it for a period boys' book, illustrated with fighting machines and maps, following two young Americans into submarine warfare, in the popular wartime adventure-series tradition.

In its time

Published in 1918, during the 1910s, lost worlds and interplanetary adventure.

Reading it

2 hr 40 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).