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Brought to you by Penguin. Shortlisted for the Best Solo Narration Award at the New York Festival Radio Awards 2020. This Penguin Classic is performed by the critically acclaimed actor David Harewood, one of the stars of the television series Homeland. Harewood is also known for his roles in...

"Es war klar, was passieren würde, wenn es zum Krieg kommt. Zuerst würden die strategisch wichtigen Ziele ausgeschaltet. Politiker, Militärs, Stützpunkte, Basen - vor allem Kommunikations-Knotenpunkte. Dann, wenn der Kontinent faktisch wehrlos war, würden die mechanischen Streitkräfte der UNSA und Eurasiens einen Frontenkrieg mitten in Europa losbrechen." Nur ein Traum? Eine Vision? Ein düsterer Ausblick auf eine mögliche Zukunft? Mit Ein Traum vom Armageddon präsentiert OLIVER DÖRING die moderne Version von H.G. WELLS klassischer Science Fiction-Kurzgeschichte als packendes Drama.

The War in the Air: And Particularly How Mr. Bert Smallways Fared While It Lasted is a military science fiction novel written by H. G. Wells. The novel was written in four months in 1907, and was serialized and published in 1908 in The Pall Mall Magazine. It is (like many of Wells's works) notable for its prophetic ideas, images, and concepts—particularly the use of aircraft for the purpose of warfare—as well as conceptualizing and anticipating events related to World War I.

Bert Smallways, a “kind of bicycle engineer,” is creatively trying to avoid bankruptcy when he meets by chance a certain Mr. Butteridge—the inventor of a new form of aircraft. Butteridge, Bert discovers, has plans to sell his invention either to British Government—or to the Germans, if the British won’t have it. When one of Butteridge’s aircrafts is shot down while Bert is aboard, Bert stumbles across a secret German plot to destroy the United States. As the story unfolds, Bert finds himself in an unexpected position, called upon to perform tasks he never could have foreseen.

Experience the terror again! Veteran narrator David Gilmore takes you through the suspense-filled invasion of the creatures from Mars in this classic H. G. Wells story from 1898. One by one the Martians build their war machines and lay waste to the English countryside while the human population is powerless to fight back against the awesome heat ray.

Professor Ogilvy spotted the projectiles as they were launched from the planet Mars. Even so, when they landed and the aliens emerged, mankind was not ready. Using superweapons and massive walking robots of war, the aliens trampled the forces arrayed against them and caused the rout of mankind. In this first-person narrative, one of the survivors who came face-to-face with the aliens tells his own true story.

Hostile invading Martians wreak havoc and destruction in England. This science-fiction classic has terrified generations of readers!