Bert Smallways is the unlikely protagonist, a kind of Edwardian Mod, not interested in a steady career, always looking for a good time, riding his proto-scooter down to Brighton at the weekends. When Bert is accidentally scooped up by a German fleet, on its way to launch a surprise attack on the United States, he finds himself with a front row seat to the greatest war that has ever been the war in the air!
This new war is to be a different sort of war than all the wars that came before it, unprecedented in its ferocity and destructiveness. The War in the Air is a story of the awful devastation following a conflict between two first-class powers with the resources of the air at their command.
