Tin Soldier

This is about World War I and the slowness of America to enter the war and the people in the United States who wanted to go and those who didn't. It is very poetical in a lot of ways and the ending although very right doesn't satisfy me because we don't learn what happens to the two main characters......more

It's the height of World War I and a plague is sweeping across the United States. No, I don't mean the Spanish Influenza. I'm talking about something even more virulent and incurable: Patriotic Fever. Patriotic Fever causes you to always give speeches instead of being able to talk normally. You'll s......more

3 1/2 stars. I enjoyed this story, written in 1918, of a young man who does not enlist to fight in the Great War because of a promise he had made to his mother. It was a matter of honor with him although he longed to join with his fellows in serving the cause of freedom. The first half of the book d......more

Good story It started off as.a cute story of rich family looking to do good. Then things change during WWI. The family tries to hold e.everything together.......more