The Khaki Boys Fighting to Win; Or, Smashing the German Lines
The Khaki Boys Fighting to Win; Or, Smashing the German Lines
Five young American soldiers burrowed deep in the French earth, waiting out a bombardment that shakes their dugout to its foundations. When the earth finally falls in, the Khaki Boys must claw their way through darkness to save each other and complete their mission behind German lines. This is WWI adventure fiction in its most stripped-down form: no philosophical questioning of cause or consequence, just five friends who enlisted together facing the chaos of modern warfare with steady nerves and unwavering loyalty to one another. Josephine Chase delivers the visceral terrors of the front lines, the crushing weight of buried alive, the desperate scramble to rescue brothers-in-arms. It is a time capsule of how early 20th-century American readers wanted to imagine their young men at war: brave, bonded, and determined to smash through. The book endures as a window into the cultural mythology America constructed around its entering of the Great War, and it satisfies anyone who wants a quick, propulsive tale of wartime friendship tested in the fiercest conditions.
