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Length10h 54m
About this audiobook
"The War In The Air", war novel written in 1907 by H. G. Wells, is often referenced because in it Wells so accurately anticipated lots of details of aerial warfare – dogfights, bombing raids, even what the earth looks like from up in the air – none of which existed or were possible when he wrote the book and when the most primitive flying machines had only just been invented.
In other words, it is a masterpiece of imaginative prophecy and another one of Wells’s books, in that it’s a real mish-mash of subject matter and tone.
Thus he chooses to recount the outbreak of this epic world war (sometime around 1914, i.e. in his then-future) and the triumph of the mighty German airfleet – via the adventures of the comic figure of Bert Smallways, keeper of a failed second-hand bicycle shop in suburban Kent. Bathos.
Audiobook details
Rating★★★★ 3.7 (2.2K)
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GenreAction and Adventure, Dystopia, Christian & Inspirational
Length10 hrs 54 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateAug 19, 2019
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Chapter 1. Of Progress And The Smallways Family
2Chapter 2. How Bert Smallways Got Into Difficulties
3Chapter 3. The Balloon
4Chapter 4. The German Air-Fleet
5Chapter 5. The Battle Of The North Atlantic
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6Chapter 6. How War Came To New York
7Chapter 7. The “Vaterland” Is Disabled
8Chapter 8. A World At War
9Chapter 9. On Goat Island
10Chapter 10. The World Under The War
11Chapter 11. The Great Collapse
12The Epilogue
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