author
Kenneth Ward
Best known for a brisk series of World War I adventure stories, this early 20th-century writer sent young readers into battlefields, aircraft, artillery units, and submarines with plenty of danger and momentum.
4 Audiobooks
The Boy Volunteers with the Submarine Fleet
by Kenneth Ward
The Boy Volunteers with the British Artillery
by Kenneth Ward
The Boy Volunteers on the Belgian Front
by Kenneth Ward
The Boy Volunteers with the French Airmen
by Kenneth Ward
About the author
Kenneth Ward is a little-documented early 20th-century novelist whose surviving reputation rests mainly on The Boy Volunteers books. Project Gutenberg and the University of Pennsylvania's Online Books Page both list four titles by him: The Boy Volunteers on the Belgian Front, The Boy Volunteers with the French Airmen, The Boy Volunteers with the British Artillery, and The Boy Volunteers with the Submarine Fleet.
Those books are adventure fiction set against the First World War and follow young American protagonists through major wartime settings on land, in the air, and at sea. Modern catalog and retail listings continue to circulate the series, which suggests his work has stayed visible through reprints and public-domain editions even though biographical details about his life are hard to confirm.
Because reliable personal information is scarce, it is safest to remember him through the fiction itself: fast-moving, patriotic-era juvenile storytelling that tried to make a world conflict vivid and exciting for young readers.