The Aerodrome Author:Rex Warner The author has called this book a 'love story' because it is from the incalculable power of love that have developed both the Aerodrome with its ruthless, inhuman efficiency, and the Village, with its sensuality, its muddle and stupidity. On the one side is the Air Vice-Marshal, a character whose satanic pride forces him to reject the world as i... more »t is and to attempt to reshape the whole material of human life. On the other side is the youthful teller of the story who, brought up in the Village, and later serving with distinction at the Aerodrome, discovers an acceptance of ordinary life which is too vast to be reshaped by any one will.« less