The War in the Air Paperback / softback
by H. G. Wells
Part of the Bison Frontiers of Imagination series
Paperback / softback
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At the beginning of the twentieth century the invention of the airplane revolutionizes warfare and precipitates a devastating world war.
Nations race to build armadas of airships; cities across the globe are bombed; flying navies clash above the Alps and India.
The United States is invaded from the east and the west.
German and American airships duel over the Atlantic, and New York is bombarded by German flying machines.
Confederation of Eastern Asia airships soar above the Rockies, soon engaging in deadly dogfights with the German air fleet above Niagara Falls. In The War in the Air, the astonishingly prophetic vision of H.
G. Wells reveals how one invention can change the world.
Before the World Wars, Wells predicted that airplanes would be used for bombing, that urban areas would become especially vulnerable to aerial attacks, that dogfights and stealth attacks by air fleets would become a normal part of warfare, and that distance and the expanse of oceans no longer would be guarantors of safety for America or other countries.
Visionary in its time and chillingly relevant a century later, The War in the Air continues to remind us that humankind's greatest evil lies in devices of its own making.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:260 pages, Illus
- Publisher:University of Nebraska Press
- Publication Date:01/11/2002
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- ISBN:9780803298316
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:260 pages, Illus
- Publisher:University of Nebraska Press
- Publication Date:01/11/2002
- Category:
- ISBN:9780803298316
