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The Ghost in the Trenches
Paperback
Series: Survival Through the Ages, Book 5
Bedtime & DreamsHistoryScience Fiction
Publisher: Carrie Ray
Published: Mar 10 2026
Pages: 576
Weight: 1.68
Height: 1.28 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Thrust into the terrifying mud and wire of No Man's Land in 1916, 15-year-old Robert must use his modern hunting and stealth skills to navigate the lethal space between the German and Allied trenches. Moving like a ghost through the fog of the Great War, he is initially hunted as a strange intruder until he stumbles upon a stranded, broken-down British Mark I tank and a squad of desperate soldiers. Using his mechanic's brain, Robert identifies a mechanical flaw-a simple fuel-line vapor lock or an ignition timing issue-that has stumped the early 20th-century engineers.
Fixing the massive machine becomes his bargaining chip for survival, turning a potential prisoner into a vital asset for the small, isolated squad. As Robert keeps their mechanical warhorses running under fire, he has to out-engineer the brutal reality of industrial warfare while tracking the shimmering atmospheric glitch hidden behind enemy lines. After a final, high-speed dash across the battlefield in a repaired biplane, he plunges through the anomaly and wakes up safely in his own bed in 2020.
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