The War in the Air
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The War in the Air: And Particularly How Mr. Bert Smallways Fared While It Lasted is a military science fiction novel written by H. G. Wells and published in 1908.
First edition (UK)
Zeppelins piloted by the Imperial German Flying Corps, like this one, invade the United States and launch devastating air raids on New York City.
View from Goat Island of the sky in which Bert Smallways saw the battle between German and Asian airships.
Joseph Pennell's 1918 prophetic Liberty bond poster calls up the pictorial image of a bombed New York City, totally engulfed in a firestorm, similar to how New York City is bombed in the book.
H. G. Wells
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Herbert George Wells was an English writer, prolific in many genres. He wrote more than forty novels and dozens of short stories. His non-fiction output included works of social commentary, politics,
The War in the Air
…The War in the Air: And Particularly How Mr. Bert Smallways Fared While It Lasted is a military science fiction novel written by H. G. Wells and published in 1908. The novel was written in four months in 1907, and was serialized and published in 1908 in The Pall Mall Magazine…
Wells in 1920
Young Wells, "Bertie" as he was known, c. 1870s
Wells spent the winter of 1887–88 convalescing at Uppark in Sussex, where his mother, Sarah, was the housekeeper.
Commemorative plaque in Midhurst, West Sussex, marking where Wells lodged while a teacher at Midhurst Grammar School between 1883 and 1884