DURSTON, GEORGE — The Boy Scouts Victory

Akron Ohio, The Saalfield Publishing Company. 1921, 1st US Edition. Decorative Hardcover. Book, A Greek boy, who is in West Point at the time all Europe is becoming involved in World War I, is summoned home to Greece because of the serious illness of his father, Count Zaidos. Before he can reach his father's side, however, he is pressed into service, starting army life as a stoker on-a transport ship. When a submarine torpedo shatters the vessel, Zaidos leaps into the sea. Keeping himself a?oat, he witnesses a most thrilling sea ?ght involving four great battleships and a huge Zeppelin. When the battle is over, he is picked up by a Red Cross ship. He receives a leg injury which incapacitates him for active soldier duty, but as soon as the leg mends he throws himself wholeheartedly into Red Cross duty on the front. His early Boy Scout training makes him a cheerful, quick, and skillful ?rst-aider" Original vintage copy, paper age-toned. 230 unnumbered pages Text age toned. :. Good>Very Good/Good with slight chips & Tears.