The War in the Air

ISBN-13: 9781421833453 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 348 str.

H. G. Wells

Opis

Our author tells us in this book, as he has told us in others, more especially in "The World Set Free," and as he has been telling us this year in his "War and the Future," that if mankind goes on with war, the smash-up of civilization is inevitable. It is chaos or the United States of the World for mankind. There is no other choice. . . .

This here Progress, said Mr. Tom Smallways, "it keeps on." "Youd 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 Clubs Saturday-afternoon ascent.