War in the Air

This is the annotated edition including the rare biographical essay by Edwin E. Slosson called "H. G. Wells - A Major Prophet Of His Time". At the epochal time of the perfection of the practical air-ship, Bert Smallways, a little cockney with the vague, narrow brain and scanty knowledge of his kind, in trying to land the balloon of Butteridge, inventor of the only perfect flying-machine, is carrie...