In the decades preceding the First World War, future war
fiction brought the concept of war in the air to the forefront of public
imagination. The stories focused on the possibilities of weaponised flying
machines, and the danger of failing to acknowledge their potential.
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| Top of an Australian poster. A German Zeppelin is caught
in the beams of two searchlights © IWM (Art.IWM PST 12259). The art of posters around the war in the air often drew upon the images depicted - in word and in image -in the pre-war novels. |
