An Englishman Looks at the World - Being a Series of Unrestrained Remarks Upon Contemporary Matters (The original unabridged edition)

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An Englishman Looks at the World is a 1914 essay collection by H. G. Wells containing journalistic pieces written between 1909 and 1914.

Table of contents:

The Coming Of Blériot

My First Flight

Off The Chain

Of The New Reign

Will The Empire Live?

The Labour Unrest

The Great State

The Common Sense Of Warfare

The Contemporary Novel

The Philosopher's Public Library

About Chesterton And Belloc

About Sir Thomas More

Traffic And Rebuilding

The So-Called Science Of Sociology

Divorce

The Schoolmaster And The Empire

The Endowment Of Motherhood

Doctors

An Age Of Specialisation

Is There A People?

The Disease Of Parliaments

The American Population

The Possible Collapse Of Civilisation

The Ideal Citizen

Some Possible Discoveries

The Human Adventure

Herbert George "H. G." Wells (1866 - 1946) was an English writer, now best known for his work in the science fiction genre. He was also a prolific writer in many other genres, including contemporary novels, history, politics and social commentary, even writing textbooks and rules for war games. Wells was now considered to be one of the world's most important political thinkers and during the 1920s and 30s he was in great demand as a contributor to newspapers and journals.

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Préface
On 29 April 1945 the Allies secretly surrendered unconditionally to Nazi Germany. Four hours later, that surrender was withdrawn. The world never knew - until now...

Auteur
Alex Scarrow has been writing for many years and this is his first full-length novel. He is the brother of bestselling historical novelist, Simon Scarrow. He currently lives in Norwich.

Résumé

It is early April of 1945. The Nazi regime is being slowly throttled by the oncoming Russian and Allied armies and Hitler rages uselessly in his Berlin bunker. But the high command have one more throw of the dice to make...

An audacious plan is hatched to save the Fatherland and beat off the approaching apocalypse. All it will take is a hodge-podge squadron of escort fighters, a captured US bomber and one suicidally brave pilot to fly it over the Atlantic into the beating heart of America.

Half a century later, a rusting plane is discovered, sunk with its crew, off the coast of New York - a relic from a bygone age. Chris Roland, a brilliant young photographer, is sent to take photos of this time capsule. But it is only when he discovers the fragments of Nazi uniforms on the decaying corpses that he realises he has come across a secret so terrible that even fifty years later it could still kill him...