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An Alternate-History Chronicle of Humanity's First War Against the Stars(AU War of the Worlds)
In the fall of 1938, something impossibly alien crashes into the English countryside. At first, it's mistaken for a meteor - until it stands up.
What follows is not a war between nations, but a war for the planet itself. As Martian tripods rise from craters and scorch cities into silence, the world's armies-still reeling from the Great War and on the brink of another-must abandon their rivalries and unite against a threat that sees no borders, no treaties, and no mercy.
Told through the journals of Corporal Thomas Henry Graves, speeches from world leaders, lost radio broadcasts, and classified war documents, Inherit the Ashes reimagines the War of the Worlds not as a Victorian curiosity, but as the defining crucible of the 20th century.
This is not the second World War.
This is Something even More harrowing.