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26. Mai 2005 · Following the development of massive airships, naïve Londoner Bert Smallways becomes accidentally involved in a German plot to invade America by air and reduce New York to rubble. But although bombers devastate the city, they cannot overwhelm the country, and their attack leads not to victory but to the beginning of a new and horrific age for humanity. And so dawns the era of Total War, in ...
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Summary. Following the development of massive airships, naïve Londoner Bert Smallways becomes accidentally involved in a German plot to invade America by air and reduce New York to rubble. But although bombers devastate the city, they cannot overwhelm the country, and their attack leads not to victory but to the beginning of a new and horrific ...
In The War in the Air, the astonishingly prophetic vision of H. G. Wells reveals how one invention can change the world.Before the World Wars, Wells predicted that airplanes would be used for bombing, that urban areas would become especially vulnerable to aerial attacks, that dogfights and stealth attacks by air fleets would become a normal part of warfare, and that distance and the expanse of ...
14. Juni 2017 · The war in the air, and particularly how Mr. Bert Smallways fared while it lasted by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George), 1866-1946. Publication date 1908 Topics Air warfare, Air warfare -- Fiction Publisher New York, The Macmillan company Col ...
Page 350 - AND now the whole fabric of civilisation was bending and giving, and dropping to pieces and melting in the furnace of the war. The stages of the swift and universal collapse of the financial and scientific civilisation with which the twentieth century opened followed each other very swiftly, so swiftly that upon the foreshortened page of history they seem altogether to overlap.
12. Feb. 2014 · The war in the air : World War II by Gurney, Gene. Publication date 1962 Topics World War (1939-1945), World War, 1939-1945, Airplanes, Military, Air warfare, Airplanes, Military Publisher New York : Bonanza Books Collection internetarch ...
