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The War in the Air Chapter 5 Part 4
In which the vast and silent German air-fleet hovers ominously above a fierce naval engagement, their colossal airships observing and directing the confused and desperate battle below with a disconcerting detachment. The young spectator, Bert, witnesses the grim spectacle of ironclads battered and aflame amid the tumult of flying machines and bomb explosions, evoking a haunting and sombre meditation on the brutal modernity of war.
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