An Adventure in 1914: An American Family's Journey on the Brink of WWI Classics A thirteen-year-old Welsh boy enters

A thirteen-year-old Welsh boy enters a man’s world in the mining pits

private and city-sponsored organizations sprang up to send relief to the people of war-torn Europe and prepare for the possibility of American involvement

remarkably by modern standards

Fawaz chronicles the initiative and resilience of civilian émigrés

we learn that they were intelligent

An Adventure in 1914: An American Family's Journey on the Brink of WWI Classics A thirteen-year-old Welsh boy entersDescription by Thomas Tileston Wells, edited by Christopher Kelly Hardcover An Adventure in 1914 is a memoir written by my great grandfather Thomas Tileston Wells of New York City. Wells, a lawyer, wrote this document after a harrowing journey he took in the summer of 1914 with his wife and two children. He had planned on pleasurable hikes in the Swiss and Austrian Tyrol. Instead, he was a witness to history's greatest train wreck the outbreak of