In the canon
The War in the Air
- Form
- Form Novel
- Year
- Year 1908
- Pages
- Pages 300
New York burns from above, block by block, and the nearest witness is a bicycle mechanic from Bun Hill who got into the balloon by mistake. Bert Smallways drifts out of a Kentish afternoon into a German airfleet, is taken for the inventor whose flying-machine drawings are in his pocket, and is hauled across the Atlantic to watch a city die.
It didn't ought ever to 'ave begun.
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