An Adventure in 1914. The True Story of an American Family’s Journey on the Brink of WWI

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185pp., hardbound with coloured dust-jacket, with texts and numerous coloured illustrations, with set of free playing cards. ISBN: 978-0-692-76789-4.

Edited and with an introduction and photography by Christopher Kelly, co-author of ‘America Invades’, ‘Italy Invades’, ‘America Invaded’, and great-grandson of Thomas Tileston Wells. In the summer of 1914, Thomas Tileston Wells, a New York lawyer, traveled through Europe with his wife and two children. But what began as an idyllic summer vacation descended into a nightmare as Europe’s armies began mobilizing for the devastating First World War.