Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series,designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith,these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality,colourful,tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. From the planet of war they came to conquer the Earth ...The night after a shooting star is seen streaking across the sky,a cylinder is discovered on Horsell Common. Fascinated and exhilarated,the local people approach the mysterious object armed with nothing more than a white flag. But when gruesome alien creatures emerge armed with all-destroying heat-rays,their rashness turns rapidly to fear. As the rays blaze towards them,it soon becomes clear they have no choice but to flee - or die.The forces of the Earth,however,may prove harder to beat than they at first appear ...
Publisher: Penguin Books LtdISBN: 9780241382707Number of pages: 240Weight: 340 gDimensions: 200 x 132 x 22 mm
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