The War in the Air (Penguin Classics)

by Jay Winter (Introduction), H. G. Wells (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  2005

  $13.76

  Following the development of massive airships, naive 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 which brutal aerial bombardments reduce the great cultures of the twentieth century to nothing. As civilization collapses around the Englishman, now stranded in a ruined America, he clings to only one hope - that he might return to London, and marry the woman he loves.

• Used

  Hardcover
  2002

  $52.61

• New

  Paperback
  2003

  $25.81

  At the beginning of the twentieth century, the invention of the aeroplane revolutionises warfare and precipitates a devastating World War. Nations race to build armadas of airships; cities across the globe are bombed; and, airship navies clash above the Alps and India. This title reveals how one invention can change the world.