The world's favorite tractor salesman calls it quits and joins the army
in the fifth installment of the Alexander Botts series, Botts Goes to
War. In this volume of short stories written in the 1940s and set
during WWII, farm machines have proven themselves indispensable to the
war effort, and who better to equip war-torn Europe than Alexander
Botts?
Throughout the book, Botts encounters shortages of necessary materials,
including rubber tires, cable, structural steel, and even civilian
housing. Botts responds to each situation with characteristically unique
and ill-advised approaches, such as sinking a tractor not once but twice
to hide it from competitors or using priceless one-hundred-year old
apple liqueur as fuel. Whether he finds success or failure so
devastating that he is shipped off to another command, he survived to
take on another assignment.
Alexander Botts was created in 1927 by author William Hazlett Upson. The
stories are based on Upson's work as a service mechanic and
troubleshooter for the Caterpillar Tractor Company. For almost half a
century, Botts was beloved by The Saturday Evening Post readers in
more than 100 short stories. This book features two stories that did not
originally appear in The Post. The series will be the first to present
the collection in its entirety along with the original illustrations.
