Added by: arcadius | Karma: 2802.10 | Fiction literature | 19 August 2010
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Bert Smallways had always been fascinated by anything that moved. Bicycles were his latest fad - but that was before he discovered the thrilling possibilities of hot air balloons. Or rather they discovered him. Accidentally whisked away to Germany in one such contraption, he finds himself in possession of plans for a top-secret aeroplane. This is turn catapulted him into the very heart of Prince Karl Albert's airship raid on New York - a step that caused the nations to take up arms and fight; a step that wad to result in world war.
Change began with the Creation, and ages of momentous development are shrouded from our eyes. The land and the people are the two foundations of English history; but before history began, the land had received the insular configuration which has largely determined its fortune; and the various peoples, who were to mould and be moulded by the land, had differentiated from the other races of the world. Several of these peoples had occupied the land before its conquest by the Anglo-Saxons, some before it was even Britain.
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