1 And then above the flames of Manhattan Island came a battle, the first battle in the air. The Americans had realised the price their waiting game must cost, and struck with all the strength they ha
1 And then above the flames of Manhattan Island came a battle, the first battle in the air. The Americans had realised the price their waiting game must cost, and struck with all the strength they ha
1 And now the whole fabric of civilisation was bending and giving, and dropping to pieces and melting in the furnace o…
1 Bert spent two more days upon Goat Island, and finished all his provisions except the cigarettes and mineral water, …
1 The whack of a bullet on the rocks beside him reminded him that he was a visible object and wearing at least portion…
1 It was only very slowly that Bert got hold of this idea that the whole world was at war, that he formed any image at…
1 The City of New York was in the year of the German attack the largest, richest, in many respects the most splendid, …
1 The Prince Karl Albert had made a profound impression upon Bert. He was quite the most terrifying person Bert had ev…
1 Of all the productions of the human imagination that make the world in which Mr. Bert Smallways lived confusingly wo…
I Bert Smallways was a vulgar little creature, the sort of pert, limited soul that the old civilisation of the early t…
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