H.G Wells, The war in the Air, describe the disasters of Bert Smallways, a cycle engineer from Bun Hill, England who luckily becomes the eye-witness to the German air attack against the United States, which created world war. Smallways incidentally trades places with Mr. Alfred Butteridge, who has different plans for a secret flying machine, by falling into Butteridge's balloon. The balloon floats to Germany, and during the journey, Smallways finds the complete drawings for Butteridge's flying machine. Smallways figures out ...
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H.G Wells, The war in the Air, describe the disasters of Bert Smallways, a cycle engineer from Bun Hill, England who luckily becomes the eye-witness to the German air attack against the United States, which created world war. Smallways incidentally trades places with Mr. Alfred Butteridge, who has different plans for a secret flying machine, by falling into Butteridge's balloon. The balloon floats to Germany, and during the journey, Smallways finds the complete drawings for Butteridge's flying machine. Smallways figures out how to land on the ground for the German air fleet, driven by Prince Karl Albert. The author's essential focus is an analysis of the immorality of man and the delicacy of modern society. He encourages a one-world government and sponsors education vs War, simultaneously he has an unbelievable insight into the future and air warfare.
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Bert blunders into the first wave of attack in the first war in the air and goes through an exiting and imaginative series of adventures. But it is much more than inviting entertainment. The most impressive is Wells' insight into the future. The story was published in 1908 but what it tells comes very close to our present world... You can force a country on its knees with a large airforce, but what to do after that? We know that all too well, reading about the wars in Iraq and Afganistan in our newpapers every day: trouble starts. And we have to deal with that somehow. Wells already knew before the first world war, before the first bomb ever came tumbling out from the sky.
