Homer Randall

Homer Randall was an early twentieth-century author of juvenile military adventure fiction. Very little is known about his life: his nationality and dates of birth and death are uncertain, his background remains obscure, and public information about him is limited. He is known for the "Army Boys" series, published in New York by George Sully & Company between 1918 and 1919; four titles from the series are held here, including Army Boys in France or, From Training Camp to Trenches, Army Boys on the Firing Line or, Holding Back the German Drive, Army Boys on German Soil: Our Doughboys Quelling the Mobs, and Army Boys in the French Trenches or, Hand to Hand Fighting with the Enemy. Set during the First World War, the books follow several young Americans from training camp to the trenches of France, combining combat, friendship, and patriotism in fast-paced plots with a strong period propaganda flavor, making them a useful sample of American juvenile military adventure writing of the era.