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the world set free
the last war erupts in europe rapidly escalating from bloody trench warfare and vicious aerial duels into a world consuming atomic holocaust . paris is engulfed by an atomic maelstrom berlin is an ever flaming crater and the cold waters of the north sea roar past dutch dikes and sweep across the low countries . moscow chicago tokyo london and hundreds of other cities become radioactive wastelands . governments topple age old cultural legacies are destroyed and the stage is set for a new social and political order . the world set free is h. g. wellss chilling and prophetic tale of a world gone mad with atomic weapons and of the rebirth of humankind from the rubble . written long before the atomic age wellss novel is a riveting and intelligent history of the future that discusses for the first time the horrors of the atomic bomb offering a startling vision of humanity purged by a catastrophic atomic war .
compact disc tantor media 2009 isbn13 9781400110834 isbn10 1400110831
abridged n isbn 13 9781400110834 number in series 1 publisher tantor media inc release date 62135769600000