Two American Boys with the Allied Armies by Major Sherman Crockett
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September 2020
Originally published 1915
Fiction, young adult, Boys of World War I series
Author: Sherman Crockett
Illustrator: Charles Wrenn
ePublished by
September 2020
Originally published 1915
Fiction, young adult, Boys of World War I series
Author: Sherman Crockett
Illustrator: Charles Wrenn
This novel written for young adults is the first of a trilogy about two American boys searching for an estranged brother in war-torn Europe during World War I—the “Great War”—the story in some respects presaging the World War II story Saving Private Ryan. In this case, a Chicago father is grief-stricken at discovering he had years before falsely accused his older son of a crime, causing him to leave home and never come back. The father learns this prodigal son is now fighting with the British somewhere in Europe as an aviator, and the younger son with his cousin is sent across the Atlantic to find and bring home the older brother for a long-overdue reconciliation with his father.
The search for the brother continues in two succeeding novels, Two American Boys in the French War Trenches and Two American Boys with the Dardanelles Battle Fleet, both originally published in 1916, and then after finding the brother the boys have more adventures on their way home in Two American Boys Aboard a Submersible, published in 1917, and Two American Boys with Pershing in France, published in 1918, all by the same author and illustrator.
The search for the brother continues in two succeeding novels, Two American Boys in the French War Trenches and Two American Boys with the Dardanelles Battle Fleet, both originally published in 1916, and then after finding the brother the boys have more adventures on their way home in Two American Boys Aboard a Submersible, published in 1917, and Two American Boys with Pershing in France, published in 1918, all by the same author and illustrator.