The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells

Paperback published by Penguin 1954

Trader's stamps on the first page but otherwise in very good condition.

When an army of invading Martians lands in England, panic and terror seize the population. As the aliens traverse the country in huge three-legged machines, incinerating all in their path with a heat ray and spreading noxious toxic gases, the people of the Earth must come to terms with the prospect of the end of human civilization and the beginning of Martian rule.