Synopsis
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'And
then above the
flames of
Manhattan Island
came a battle, the
first battle in
the air'
Following the
development of
massive airships,
naive Londoner
Bert Smallways
becomes
accidentally
involved in a
German plot to
invade America by
air and reduce New
York to
rubble. But
although bombers
devastate the
city, they cannot
overwhelm the
country, and their
attack leads not
to victory bit to
the beginning of a
new and horrific
age for
humanity.
And so dawns the
era of Total War,
in which brutal
aerial
bombardments
reduce the great
cultures of the
twentieth century
to nothing.
As civilization
collapses around
Smallways, now
stranded in a
ruined America, he
clings to only one
hope - that he
might return to
London, and marry
the woman he
loves. |