The War in the Air E-Book

Herbert George Wells

• Herausgeber: Ktoczyta.pl
• Kategorie: Fantasy und Science-Fiction
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2017

Beschreibung

Bert Smallways is the unlikely protagonist, a kind of Edwardian Mod, not interested in a steady career, always looking for a good time, riding his proto-scooter down to Brighton at the weekends. When Bert is accidentally scooped up by a German fleet, on its way to launch a surprise attack on the United States, he finds himself with a front row seat to the greatest war that has ever been – the war in the air! This new war is to be a different sort of war than all the wars that came before it, unprecedented in its ferocity and destructiveness. The art of war has completely changed with the coming of airplanes, which the author very eloquently brings out. „The War in the Air” is a story of the awful devastation following a conflict between two first-class powers with the resources of the air at their command. It is one of the most brilliant and successful of Mr. Wells’s studies in futurity.

Leseprobe

Contents

I. OF PROGRESS AND THE SMALLWAYS FAMILY

II. HOW BERT SMALLWAYS GOT INTO DIFFICULTIES

III. THE BALLOON

IV. THE GERMAN AIR-FLEET

V. THE BATTLE OF THE NORTH ATLANTIC

VI. HOW WAR CAME TO NEW YORK

VII. THE "VATERLAND" IS DISABLED

VIII. A WORLD AT WAR

IX. ON GOAT ISLAND

X. THE WORLD UNDER THE WAR

XI. THE GREAT COLLAPSE

THE EPILOGUE