The complete online text of War and the future: Italy, France and Britain at war by H. G. Wells.

The English author Herbert George Wells (1866-1946) began his career as a novelist with a popular sequence of science fiction that remains the most familiar part of his work. He later wrote realistic novels and novels of ideas. On Sept. 21, 1866, H. G. W...

Herbert George Wells was one of the most prolific and most popular writers of short fiction of his era and of the twentieth century. Some of his longer fictions, such as The Time Machine: An Invention (1895) and The War of the Worlds (1898), have formed...

H. G. Wells's earlier works of science fiction have retained their popularity for nearly a century. In recent years they have also won academic regard for integrating the fantastic with the realistic to produce challenging alien perspectives. The influen...

Britain, France and the Financing of the First World War. By Martin Horn. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2001. VI + 262 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, tables. Cloth, $65.00. ISBN 0-198-20871-1. The financing of the First World War has not attracted much scholarly attention...

The Politics of Diplomacy: Britain and France in the Balkans in the First World War, by David Dutton. New York, I.B. Tauris (distributed by St. Martin's Press), 1998. viii, 248 pp. $59.50. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, David Dutton, now...