Victor Appleton 3 hr 12 min read

With his country at war, Tom Swift builds a mighty war tank to do his bit for Uncle Sam, braving suspicion, spies, and capture to prove his powerful new weapon.

Victor Appleton's 1918 novel is a rousing wartime entry in the beloved Tom Swift juvenile series. Fast, wholesome, inventive. Read it for a classic patriotic boys' invention-adventure, a formidable war tank, daring tests, and thwarted enemies, in the brisk, optimistic style that made Tom Swift a fixture of early-twentieth-century American juvenile fiction and a byword for young ingenuity.

In its time

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

Reading it

3 hr 12 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).