Tom Swift and His War Tank

In 1918, America is at war and seventeen-year-old inventor Tom Swift faces a question: pick up a rifle or pick up a blueprint? While his neighbors march off to fight, Tom stays home, obsessively building something that could change everything: a revolutionary war tank for the Allied cause. But the battle isn't just mechanical. His own town questions his patriotism. His girl wonders if his blood runs true-blue. Friends call him a coward. Meanwhile, German spies have sniffed out his secret, and they'll stop at nothing to steal his design: kidnapping, theft, sabotage. Tom must prove that American ingenuity wins wars, not just courage in the trenches. This is vintage juvenile adventure at its most earnest, a snapshot of an era that believed wholeheartedly in the boy who could think his way to victory. It’s for readers who want to understand what Americans once dreamed about when they imagined technology as salvation.