The Guarded Heights

First published in 1918, while the First World War still reshaped the world, The Guarded Heights is Wadsworth Camp's stirring novel of divided allegiance. Its hero, a young American whose upbringing and affections bind him to Germany, finds his world upended when war engulfs Europe in the summer of 1914, forcing him to choose between the land that raised him and the country of his birth. Camp, already celebrated for his masterly suspense fiction, brings the same taut pacing to a story of love, duty, and conscience played out against the collapse of old Europe. This edition reproduces the complete, unabridged original text exactly as it appeared in 1918, accompanied by a new introduction that places the novel in its historical moment and reader's notes illuminating its period details. For lovers of classic war fiction and early twentieth-century American storytelling, this is an absorbing window into a nation finding its voice. Part of The Founding Texts Library.