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The War in the Air

by Wells Herbert George

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The War in the Air is one of the most remarkable novels by H. G. Wells that was written in 1907 and published a year later. This book is devoted to the events of World War I. The author does a great job in describing the terror of the war and how it influenced the lives of ordinary people. The main character is a young man named Bert Smallways. The author proposes his own vision on the role of different countries in the war. China and Japan are allies in Asia, Germany is aggressive and is dreaming of conquering the world. The public opinion in the United States is divided between those who are for entering the war and those who are against it. The British Empire is in pacific mood, occupied more with its internal problems in Northern Ireland. Italy, Spain and Portugal have a good army but don't want to fight. Russia is divided within itself because of the conflict between revolutionaries and reactionaries. The book is very interesting for reading as its plot if carrying-away and easy for understanding.

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...conflict between Federal and Stategovernments upon the question of universal service in a defensivemilitia. Next came the great alliance of Eastern Asia, a close-knitcoalescence of China and Japan, advancing with rapid strides year byyear to predominance in the world's affairs. Then the German alliancestill struggled to achieve its dream of imperial expansion, and itsimposition of the German language upon a forcibly united Europe. Thesewere the three most spirited and aggressive powers in the world. Farmore pacific was the British Empire, perilously scattered over theglobe, and distracted now by insurrectionary movements in Irelandand among all its Subject Races. It had given these subject racescigarettes, boots, bowler hats, cricket, race meetings, cheap revolvers, petroleum, the factory system of industry, halfpenny newspapers inboth English and the vernacular, inexpensive university degrees, motor-bicycles and electric trams; it had produced a considerableliterature expressing...