The War in the Air
by H. G. Wells
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This here Progress," said Mr. Tom Smallways, "it keeps on." "You'd hardly think it could keep on," said Mr. Tom Smallways. It was along before the War in the Air began that Mr. Smallways made this remark. He was sitting on the fence at the end of his garden and surveying the great Bun Hill gas-works with an eye that neither praised nor blamed. Above the clustering gasometers three unfamiliar shapes appeared, thin, wallowing bladders that flapped and rolled about, and grew bigger and bigger and rounder and rounder-balloons in course of inflation for the South of England Aero Club's Saturday-aft...
Chapters (24)
- THE WAR IN THE AIR
- PREFACE TO REPRINT EDITION
- THE WAR IN THE AIR
- CHAPTER I. OF PROGRESS AND THE SMALLWAYS FAMILY
- CHAPTER II. HOW BERT SMALLWAYS GOT INTO DIFFICULTIES
- CHAPTER III. THE BALLOON
- I
- CHAPTER IV. THE GERMAN AIR-FLEET
- 1
- CHAPTER V. THE BATTLE OF THE NORTH ATLANTIC
- 1
- CHAPTER VI. HOW WAR CAME TO NEW YORK
- 1
- CHAPTER VII. THE “VATERLAND” IS DISABLED
- 1
- CHAPTER VIII. A WORLD AT WAR
- 1
- CHAPTER IX. ON GOAT ISLAND
- 1
- CHAPTER X. THE WORLD UNDER THE WAR
- 1
- CHAPTER XI. THE GREAT COLLAPSE
- 1
- THE EPILOGUE
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