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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.  |