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  • The War in the Air

  • And Particularly How Mr. Bert Smallways Fared While It Lasted
  • By: H. G. Wells
  • Narrated by: Raymond Haggart
  • Length: 10 hrs and 39 mins
  • 3.0 out of 5 stars (1 rating)

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The War in the Air

By: H. G. Wells
Narrated by: Raymond Haggart
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The War in the Air: And Particularly How Mr. Bert Smallways Fared While It Lasted is a military science fiction novel written by H. G. Wells. The novel was written in four months in 1907, and was serialized and published in 1908 in The Pall Mall Magazine. It is (like many of Wells's works) notable for its prophetic ideas, images, and concepts - particularly the use of aircraft for the purpose of warfare - as well as conceptualizing and anticipating events related to World War I. The novel's hero and main character is Bert Smallways, who is described as "a forward-thinking young man" and a "kind of bicycle engineer of the let's-'ave-a-look-at-it and enamel-chipping variety."
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The Pain in the Ear

Wells’s prescience in predicting aerial warfare is matched only by the narrator’s incompetence in pronouncing everyday words.

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