The War in the Air

<p><strong>Come fly with Bert Smallways, a commoner with a comic, tragic, star-crossed, and high-flying fate, into a future that never was.</strong></p><p>Long out of print! A visionary novel by the author of <em>The War of the Worlds</em> and <em>The Time Machine</em></p><p>This classic, full-length novel from H. G. Wells imagines a world of progress stricken by brutal conflict in the sky-written before the actual invention of airplanes. </p><p>Bert Smallways is a small man in a small town with big dreams. His most fantastic dream-flying-seems improbable. Prototype airplane after airplane crashes and burns. </p><p>Until one doesn't.</p><p>Bert's desire to fly beckons him and combines with implacable fate to sweep him up in a fantastic, dramatic adventure in which he, a pawn of fortune at the center of it all, travels to far lands and distant battles envisioned in <em>The War in the Air</em>. His adventures will have great consequence for the entire world. </p><p>But will this star-crossed young man find what he really desires? </p>