Author: H.G. Wells / Year: 1866 - 1946 / Genre: Military- War-non OUR AIRSHIP ESCAPADES into “a Dystopian Retro-Future which never was” continue in the epic Zeppelin war novel by H. G. Wells,
THE WAR IN THE AIR. Young Bert Smallways, a brilliant mechanist and accidental aeronaut, finds himself as a reluctant stowaway
upon the very same airship which begins the Great War. This is “dieselpunk” at its finest, featuring petrol-powered war machines,
ironclads, bombardments, espionage, intrigue and daring adventures in the wild skies of the earliest 1900s. Smallways is swept
away aboard the Vaterland, the flagship piloted by a belligerent German Prince, whose mastery of technology shall herald in a new
age of war. How long can Smallways keep his identity a secret from the Prince? Will Bert survive THE WAR IN THE AIR?
