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The War In The Air »

Authors: H. G. Wells
ISBN-13: 9781169302303, ISBN-10: 1169302300
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing Company
Date Published: September 2010
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: H. G. Wells

"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe," H. G. Wells once said. Widely revered as the father of science fiction, the English novelist, journalist, sociologist, and historian penned ominous -- and educated -- glimpses at humanity's possible future, including The Time Machine (1895), The Invisible Man (1897), and The War of the Worlds (1898).

Book Synopsis

Bert Smallways was a vulgar little creature, the sort of pert, limited soul that the old civilisation of the early twentieth century produced by the million in every country of the world. He had lived all his life in narrow streets, and between mean houses he could not look over, and in a narrow circle of ideas from which there was no escape.

	Introduction	vii
I.	Of Progress and the Smallways Family	1
II.	How Bert Smallways Got into Difficulties	21
III.	The Balloon	44
IV.	The German Air Fleet	63
V.	The Battle of the North Atlantic	95
VI.	How War Came to New York	116
VII.	The Vaterland is Disabled	138
VIII.	A World at War	160
IX.	On Goat Island	182
X.	The World under the War	211
XI.	The Great Collapse	230
	The Epilogue	246