The War of the Worlds

<p></p><p>In Victorian era England an eerie green shooting star is seen streaking through the sky from Mars. A crowd gathers on Horsell Common and discover a huge cylinder lodged in a great cater. When the sinister object opens it becomes horrifyingly apparent the visitors from space have not arrived on earth with friendly intentions. After wiping out the entire crowd with a devastating heat ray the alien invaders build massive metal killing machines intent on the extinction of all mankind. We follow a lone journalist's harrowing journey as he desperately clings onto not only his own survival but mankind's itself.</p><p></p><p>This illustrated edition of The War of the Worlds includes thirty nine powerful and evocative illustrations by Richard Fairlamb.</p>