The Boy Scouts on the Trail

Frank Barnes expects to spend the holidays waiting alone at school—until Henri Martin invites him home to Amiens. Then their headmaster speaks of strange aeroplanes over the border.

Near Paris in the summer of 1914, the two friends look forward to walks, games, and joining the French Boy Scouts. Frank, the son of an American father and a French mother, longs for the warmth of a home; Henri is already thinking of France’s old defeat and the war he believes must come. Their headmaster has heard unsettling reports of unknown aircraft and fresh troops, and warns that if war breaks out, the school will empty overnight. The holiday promise of adventure suddenly seems to point toward something far more dangerous. How soon will the boys’ plans be swept up in the gathering storm?

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