The War in the Air

О книге

Добавлена в библиотеку 03.03.2014 пользователем Elleroth

Издание 1908 года

Автор: Герберт Уэллс

Жанр: Научная Фантастика

Размер fb2 файла: 572.92 KB

Объём: 269 страниц

Книгу просматривали 256 раз, оценку поставили 53 читателя

Аннотация

PREFACE TO REPRINT EDITION

The reader should grasp clearly the date at which this book was written. It was done in 1907: it appeared in various magazines as a serial in 1908 and it was published in the Fall of that year. At that time the aeroplane was, for most people, merely a rumour and the "Sausage" held the air. The contemporary reader has all the advantage of ten years' experience since this story was imagined. He can correct his author at a dozen points and estimate the value of these warnings by the standard of a decade of realities. The book is weak on anti-aircraft guns, for example, and still more negligent of submarines. Much, no doubt, will strike the reader as quaint and limited but upon much the writer may not unreasonably plume himself. The interpretation of the German spirit must have read as a caricature in 1908. Was it a caricature? Prince Karl seemed a fantasy then. Reality has since copied Prince Carl with an astonishing faithfulness. Is it too much to hope that some democratic "Bert" may not ultimately get even with his Highness? 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. Ten years have but added an enormous conviction to the message of this book. It remains essentially right, a pamphlet story—in support of the League to Enforce Peace. K.

CHAPTER I. OF PROGRESS AND THE SMALLWAYS FAMILY
1
2
3
5
6
CHAPTER II. HOW BERT SMALLWAYS GOT INTO DIFFICULTIES
1
2
3
4
5
CHAPTER III. THE BALLOON
1
2
3
4
5
CHAPTER IV. THE GERMAN AIR-FLEET
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
CHAPTER V. THE BATTLE OF THE NORTH ATLANTIC
1
2
3
4
5
6
CHAPTER VI. HOW WAR CAME TO NEW YORK
1
2
3
4
5
6
CHAPTER VII. THE "VATERLAND" IS DISABLED
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
CHAPTER VIII. A WORLD AT WAR
1
2
3
4
5
CHAPTER IX. ON GOAT ISLAND
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
CHAPTER X. THE WORLD UNDER THE WAR
1
2
3
4
5
CHAPTER XI. THE GREAT COLLAPSE
1
2
3
4
5
THE EPILOGUE

Скачать или читать онлайн книгу The War in the Air

На этой странице свободной электронной библиотеки fb2.top любой посетитель может читать онлайн бесплатно полную версию книги «The War in the Air» или скачать fb2 файл книги на свой смартфон или компьютер и читать её с помощью любой современной книжной читалки. Книга написана автором Герберт Уэллс, относится к жанру Научная Фантастика, добавлена в библиотеку 03.03.2014 и доступна полностью, абсолютно бесплатно и без регистрации.

С произведением «The War in the Air» , занимающим объем 269 печатных страниц, вы наверняка проведете не один увлекательный вечер. В нашей онлайн читалке предусмотрен ночной режим чтения, который отлично подойдет для тёмного времени суток и чтения перед сном. Помимо этого, конечно же, можно читать «The War in the Air» полностью в классическом режиме или же скачать всю книгу целиком на свой смартфон в удобном формате fb2. Желаем увлекательного чтения!