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Two American youths who served earlier with aviation recover in a hospital and then join a British artillery unit, experiencing frontline life and heavy-gun warfare. The narrative follows their training and observation duties, descriptions of artillery pieces and trajectories, reconnaissance of shelled battlefields and trenches, a lively camp behind the lines, encounters with spies and legal measures against espionage, and a hazardous expedition that uncovers an enemy range-finder and battery, culminating in a fierce counterattack. Illustrative technical explanations and line drawings accompany accounts of gun deployment, signaling from aircraft, and the tactics of observation and artillery fire.

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Title: The Boy Volunteers with the British Artillery

Author: Kenneth Ward

Release date: December 14, 2017 [eBook #56179]
Most recently updated: October 23, 2024

Language: English

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*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE BOY VOLUNTEERS WITH THE BRITISH ARTILLERY ***

THE BOY VOLUNTEERS SERIES
By KENNETH WARD

12mo. Cloth. Fully Illustrated  50c per Volume

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How many boys today know anything about the great guns now being used on so many European battle fronts? Our young friends had the rare opportunity of witnessing, at first hand, a number of these terrific duels, and the story which is most fascinatingly told is illustrated with numerous drawings of the British, French and German field pieces.

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The Boy Volunteers
with the
British Artillery

BY
KENNETH WARD

THE NEW YORK BOOK COMPANY
NEW YORK


Copyright, 1917, by
AMERICAN AUTHORS PUBLISHING CO.