Comments on: So yes, I am actually in London http://airminded.org/2007/07/18/so-yes-i-am-actually-in-london/ Airpower and British society, 1908-1941 Fri, 05 Sep 2008 20:11:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Roger Todd http://airminded.org/2007/07/18/so-yes-i-am-actually-in-london/#comment-55096 Roger Todd Wed, 18 Jul 2007 23:37:14 +0000 http://airminded.org/2007/07/18/so-yes-i-am-actually-in-london/#comment-55096 Ah, I expect only you as the blog's owner can post inline images... Oh well, just copy the URL to see a scan of the illustration. Ah, I expect only you as the blog’s owner can post inline images…

Oh well, just copy the URL to see a scan of the illustration.

]]> By: Roger Todd http://airminded.org/2007/07/18/so-yes-i-am-actually-in-london/#comment-55095 Roger Todd Wed, 18 Jul 2007 23:36:00 +0000 http://airminded.org/2007/07/18/so-yes-i-am-actually-in-london/#comment-55095 It pops up surprisingly frequently in secondhand bookshops. First editions (sans dust cover) should only cost a fiver or so. Meanwhile... [IMG]http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a172/GrandLunar/SciFi/Parham1.jpg[/IMG] It pops up surprisingly frequently in secondhand bookshops. First editions (sans dust cover) should only cost a fiver or so.

Meanwhile…

[IMG]http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a172/GrandLunar/SciFi/Parham1.jpg[/IMG]

]]> By: Brett Holman http://airminded.org/2007/07/18/so-yes-i-am-actually-in-london/#comment-55088 Brett Holman Wed, 18 Jul 2007 21:16:06 +0000 http://airminded.org/2007/07/18/so-yes-i-am-actually-in-london/#comment-55088 Thanks, yet another book I will have to look up now! :) Thanks, yet another book I will have to look up now! :)

]]> By: Roger Todd http://airminded.org/2007/07/18/so-yes-i-am-actually-in-london/#comment-55035 Roger Todd Wed, 18 Jul 2007 11:35:02 +0000 http://airminded.org/2007/07/18/so-yes-i-am-actually-in-london/#comment-55035 "...here’s Nelson’s Column (which novelists of the next air war were always careful to knock over for the symbolism)" Indeed! There's a lovely illustration by the great David Low in H G Wells's 'The Autocracy of Mr Parham' showing Nelson's Column toppling under a bomb attack. Anyhoo, welcome to The Smoke! “…here’s Nelson’s Column (which novelists of the next air war were always careful to knock over for the symbolism)”

Indeed! There’s a lovely illustration by the great David Low in H G Wells’s ‘The Autocracy of Mr Parham’ showing Nelson’s Column toppling under a bomb attack.

Anyhoo, welcome to The Smoke!

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