The warriors of the Great War tormented by the Martians of H.G. Wells; an astonishing and innovative alternative history. Summer 1916. The second wave of Martian machines has invaded eastern France and Germany, and begins their assault on humanity and the people of Paris. But Professor Challenger comes back from the site of the Tunguska incident with a strange alien device. What can a single weapon, wielded by one man, do against hundreds of mechanical monsters, up to 30 meters high, armed with a ray of death?