The War of the Worlds: Large Print

The War of the Worlds: Large Print

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  • Author: H. G. Wells
  • Publisher: Independently Published
  • ISBN: 9781091588417
  • Category : Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 256

"No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's..." So begins H. G. Wells' classic novel in which Martian lifeforms take over planet Earth. As the Martians emerge, they construct giant killing machines - armed with heatrays - that are impervious to attack. Advancing upon London they destroy everything in their path. Everything, except the few humans they collect in metal traps. Victorian England is a place in which the steam engine is state-of-the-art technology and powered flight is just a dream. Mankind is helpless against the killing machines from Mars, and soon the survivors are left living in a new stone age. Includes the original Warwick Goble illustrations.


The War of the Worlds

The War of the Worlds

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  • Author: H G Wells
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN: 9781645940913
  • Category :
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 188

From the father of science fiction, H. G. Wells, 1898 "The War of the Worlds" tells of an unnamed protagonist who narrates the event of Southern England being invaded by Martians. Wells' novel is praised for being an influential work in invasion literature with its prophetic tales and social criticism.


The Massacre of Mankind

The Massacre of Mankind

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  • Author: Stephen Baxter
  • Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)
  • ISBN: 1524760129
  • Category : Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 498

Originally published: London: Gollancz, 2017.


War of the Worlds: Global Dispatches

War of the Worlds: Global Dispatches

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  • Author: Kevin J. Anderson
  • Publisher: Titan Books (US, CA)
  • ISBN: 1781162050
  • Category : Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 449

In the spirit of H.G. Wells's classic tale of Martian invasion comes this anthology of some of today's leading authors' own renditions of the Martian invasion as it might have been seen through the eyes of such notables as Jack London, H.P. Lovecraft, Teddy Roosevelt and Pablo Picasso. Authors included are: Mike Resnick, Walter Jon Williams, Daniel Marcus, Robert Silverberg, Janet Berliner, Howard Waldrop, Doug Beason, Barbara Hambly, George Alec Effinger, Allen Steele, Mark W. Tiedemann, Gregory Benford and David Brin, Don Webb, Daniel Keys Moran and Jodi Moran, M. Shayne Bell, Dave Wolverton and Connie Willis.


War on the Waters

War on the Waters

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  • Author: James M. McPherson
  • Publisher: UNC Press Books
  • ISBN: 0807837326
  • Category : History
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 288

Although previously undervalued for their strategic impact because they represented only a small percentage of total forces, the Union and Confederate navies were crucial to the outcome of the Civil War. In War on the Waters, James M. McPherson has crafted an enlightening, at times harrowing, and ultimately thrilling account of the war's naval campaigns and their military leaders. McPherson recounts how the Union navy's blockade of the Confederate coast, leaky as a sieve in the war's early months, became increasingly effective as it choked off vital imports and exports. Meanwhile, the Confederate navy, dwarfed by its giant adversary, demonstrated daring and military innovation. Commerce raiders sank Union ships and drove the American merchant marine from the high seas. Southern ironclads sent several Union warships to the bottom, naval mines sank many more, and the Confederates deployed the world's first submarine to sink an enemy vessel. But in the end, it was the Union navy that won some of the war's most important strategic victories--as an essential partner to the army on the ground at Fort Donelson, Vicksburg, Port Hudson, Mobile Bay, and Fort Fisher, and all by itself at Port Royal, Fort Henry, New Orleans, and Memphis.


The War of the Worlds

The War of the Worlds

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  • Author: H.G. Wells
  • Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
  • ISBN: 3368239775
  • Category : Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 186

Reproduction of the original.


The War of the Worlds Illustrated

The War of the Worlds Illustrated

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  • Author: H G Wells
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN:
  • Category :
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 230

The War of the Worlds is a science fiction novel by English author H. G. Wells, first serialised in 1897 by Pearson's Magazine in the UK and by Cosmopolitan magazine in the US. The novel's first appearance in hardcover was in 1898 from publisher William Heinemann of London. Written between 1895 and 1897, it is one of the earliest stories to detail a conflict between mankind and an extraterrestrial race. The novel is the first-person narrative of both an unnamed protagonist in Surrey and of his younger brother in London as southern England is invaded by Martians. The novel is one of the most commented-on works in the science fiction canon.


Accelerate

Accelerate

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  • Author: John P. Kotter
  • Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press
  • ISBN: 1625271743
  • Category : Business & Economics
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 220

Describes how organizations can learn to move swiftly to accommodate change while still providing the necessary structures that nurture employees and long-term success.


Killing Patton

Killing Patton

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  • Author: Bill O'Reilly
  • Publisher: Henry Holt and Company
  • ISBN: 0805096698
  • Category : History
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 366

Readers around the world have thrilled to Killing Lincoln, Killing Kennedy, and Killing Jesus--riveting works of nonfiction that journey into the heart of the most famous murders in history. Now from Bill O'Reilly, iconic anchor of The O'Reilly Factor, comes the most epic book of all in this multimillion-selling series: Killing Patton. General George S. Patton, Jr. died under mysterious circumstances in the months following the end of World War II. For almost seventy years, there has been suspicion that his death was not an accident--and may very well have been an act of assassination. Killing Patton takes readers inside the final year of the war and recounts the events surrounding Patton's tragic demise, naming names of the many powerful individuals who wanted him silenced.


Hannah's War

Hannah's War

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  • Author: Jan Eliasberg
  • Publisher: Little, Brown
  • ISBN: 0316537454
  • Category : Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 252

A "mesmerizing" re-imagination of the final months of World War II (Kate Quinn, author of The Alice Network), Hannah's War is an unforgettable love story about an exceptional woman and the dangerous power of her greatest discovery. Berlin, 1938. Groundbreaking physicist Dr. Hannah Weiss is on the verge of the greatest discovery of the 20th century: splitting the atom. She understands that the energy released by her discovery can power entire cities or destroy them. Hannah believes the weapon's creation will secure an end to future wars, but as a Jewish woman living under the harsh rule of the Third Reich, her research is belittled, overlooked, and eventually stolen by her German colleagues. Faced with an impossible choice, Hannah must decide what she is willing to sacrifice in pursuit of science's greatest achievement. New Mexico, 1945. Returning wounded and battered from the liberation of Paris, Major Jack Delaney arrives in the New Mexican desert with a mission: to catch a spy. Someone in the top-secret nuclear lab at Los Alamos has been leaking encoded equations to Hitler's scientists. Chief among Jack's suspects is the brilliant and mysterious Hannah Weiss, an exiled physicist lending her talent to J. Robert Oppenheimer's mission. All signs point to Hannah as the traitor, but over three days of interrogation that separate her lies from the truth, Jack will realize they have more in common than either one bargained for. Hannah's War is a thrilling wartime story of loyalty, truth, and the unforeseeable fallout of a single choice.