In October 1916 the United States is at peace, if you don’t count the U.S. Army scrambling through the hills of northern Mexico looking for the bandit Pancho Villa, or that a German submarine has sunk six ships within sight of Nantucket Island at the same time the World Series between the Red Sox and Brooklyn Dodgers is being played in Boston, only 60 miles away. President Woodrow Wilson, in the absence of microphones, is trying to make himself heard by large crowds of enthusiastic supporters as he campaigns for a second term on a platform to keep the U.S. out of the genocidal European war that has been raging for two years on the ghastly battlefields of France and Belgium. Into these tortured times charge Ted and Ed Frederick, 17-year-old twins from Brooklyn, hell-bent on doing their part to help their friend President Wilson, and as well the enchanting Mary Cady, a pretty English maiden whose parents have been killed in a German Zeppelin raid, and whose two brothers serve with the Loyal Lancashire Regiment in Flanders fields.
