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  1. 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 ...

  2. 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 ...

  3. 12. Mai 2012 · This book was written before World War I, but world powers were already at odds with each other, and Wells, I believe had two purposes for writing the story as he did. He wanted to show that war had changed while we weren't looking, and that the next war would be an air war. He got the details of the aircraft wrong, and Zeppelins weren't really ...

    • H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
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  5. 9. Nov. 2021 · The War in the Air can’t compare to Wells’ true classics, but it is an interesting piece nevertheless, not least for it’s historical significance. It’s a snapshot into the mindset of a different time, with all the fascination and faults that come with that. Clearly, on a pros level, this book has been weathered by the passage of time.

  6. 21. Nov. 2017 · Modern warfare takes to the skies in this novel by a master of science fiction and fantasy. In 1907, young Bert Smallways, a brilliant mechanist and accidental aeronaut, finds himself a reluctant stowaway upon the very same airship that will begin the Great War. Soon, Smallways is swept away aboard the Vaterland, the flagship piloted by a ...

    • H. G. Wells
  7. THE WAR IN THE AIR CHAPTER I. OF PROGRESS AND THE SMALLWAYS FAMILY 1 "This here Progress," said Mr. Tom Smallways, "it keeps on." "You'd hardly think it could keep on," said Mr. Tom Smallways. It was along before the War in the Air began that Mr. Smallways made this remark. He was sitting on the fence at the end of his garden and