The Cold War era zeitgeist translated into a type of near-paranoia manifested in themes such as invading armies of evil aliens, ( Invasion of the Body Snatchers, The War of the Worlds ); and communist fifth columnists, ( The Manchurian Candidate ).

His most notable science fiction works include The War of the Worlds, The Time Machine, The Invisible Man and The Island of Doctor Moreau.

Statue of a The War of the Worlds Tripod ( The War of the Worlds ) | tripod, erected as a tribute to H. G. Wells in the centre of the town of Woking, England

Some of his early novels, called " scientific romances ", invented a number of themes now classic in science fiction in such works as The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds, When the Sleeper Wakes, and The First Men in the Moon.

On 28 October 1940 Wells was interviewed by Orson Welles, who two years previously had performed an infamous radio adaptation of The War of the Worlds, on KTSA radio in San Antonio, Texas.

* " H. G. Wells warned us how it would feel to fight a War of the Worlds ", by Niall Ferguson, in The Telegraph, 24 Jun 2005.

* Website examining the legacy of The War Of The Worlds

After the success of Welles's War of the Worlds 1938 Halloween radio broadcast, Welles gained a unique contract with RKO Pictures.

An early triumph of Luthor's first term occurs during the Our Worlds at War comic book crossover, in which he coordinates the U. S. Army, Earth's superheroes, and a number of untrustworthy alien forces to battle the main villain of the story arc, Imperiex.

The madness that is a side effect of Venom takes hold, and during the ensuing fight with Superman and Batman, Luthor admits he had traded the creature Doomsday to Darkseid in return for weapons during the Our Worlds at War crisis ; in doing so, he inadvertently provides a confession which is captured on video by Batman.

* The War of the Worlds ( 1898 ) by H. G. Wells.

Several post-Mariner works are homages to the older phase of Mars fiction, circumventing the scientific picture of a dry and lifeless Mars with an unbreathable atmosphere through such science fiction generic staples as positing its future terraforming, or creating alternate history versions of Mars, where Burroughs ' Barsoom, Bradbury's Martian Chronicles or The War of the Worlds are literal truth.

In the world of The League, the Martians from The War of the Worlds are not originally from Mars, but were invading aliens who moved on to try to conquer Earth.

Scarlet Traces is intended as a sequel to H. G. Wells ' The War of the Worlds and centres on a counter-invasion of Mars, beginning about 1908 and continuing over the next three decades.

* 1938 – Orson Welles broadcasts his radio play of H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds, causing anxiety in some of the audience in the United States.

In fact, several stories and books describing the aftermath of a total American victory in the Third World War — such as " Sam Hall " and its loose sequel " Three Worlds to Conquer " as well as " Shield "— are scarcely less bleak than the above-mentioned depictions of a Soviet victory.

The Radio Project also researched the 1938 Halloween broadcast of The War of the Worlds.

Wells ' The War of the Worlds describes an invasion of late Victorian England by Martians using tripod fighting machines equipped with advanced weaponry.

The War of the Worlds is an 1898 science fiction novel written by H. G. Wells.

The War of the Worlds may also refer to:

* The War of the Worlds ( radio drama ), the 1938 radio broadcast by Orson Welles

In late 2005, the FABF acquired two Mil Mi-35 ' Hind ' attack helicopters from Russia in apparent response by moves by neighbouring Côte d ' Ivoire to bolster its own air attack capabilities during the Ivorian Civil War.

( 2005 ) The German Way in War: From the Thirty Years War to the Third Reich, University of Kansa Press.

The Cold War: A New History ( 2005 )

During the Second Sudanese Civil War ( 1983 – 2005 ), there was a massive uncontrolled crossing of the Sudan-C. A. R.

Examples include Arsenic and Old Lace ( 1944 ), Monsieur Verdoux ( 1947 ), Kind Hearts and Coronets ( 1949 ), The Ladykillers ( 1955 ), Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb ( 1964 ), The Loved One ( 1965 ), MASH ( 1970 ), Monty Python's The Meaning of Life ( 1983 ), Brazil ( 1985 ), The War of the Roses ( 1989 ), Heathers ( 1989 ), Your Friends & Neighbors ( 1998 ), Keeping Mum ( 2005 ), and Burn After Reading ( 2008 ).

* Holger Nehring, ' The British and West German Protests against Nuclear Weapons and the Cultures of the Cold War, 1957 – 64 ', Contemporary British History, 19, No. 2 ( 2005 )

Under Mourinho, Chelsea became the fifth English team to win back-to-back league championships since the Second World War ( 2004 – 05 and 2005 – 06 ), in addition to winning an FA Cup ( 2007 ) and two League Cups ( 2005 and 2007 ).

The Gulf War and similar skirmishes were an inspiration for dramatic films in war drama movies like Black Hawk Down ( 2001 ) and Jarhead ( 2005 ).

By the 2005 series, the Daleks and the Time Lords had engaged in a mutually destructive Time War.

Subsequently, in " Dalek " ( 2005 ), it is revealed that the last great Time War was fought between the Time Lords and the Daleks, ending in the obliteration of both sides and with only two apparent survivors ; the Doctor and a lone Dalek that had somehow fallen through time and crashed on Earth.

* Weinberg, Gerhard L. A World at Arms: A Global History of World War II ( 2005 )

* " War of the Worldviews ", by John J. Miller, in The Wall Street Journal Opinion Journal, 21 Jun 2005.

Victory through Coalition: Britain and France during the First World War ( Cambridge University Press, 2005 ) 304pp

However, whilst the mid 1980s GDP per capita shrank by 23 % amid the Iran-Iraq War, GDP has now almost doubled since 2005.

A territorial dispute with Russia, dating from the end of World War II, over the two southernmost of the Kuril Islands, Etorofu and Kunashiri, and the smaller Shikotan and Habomai Islands northeast of Hokkaidō remains a sensitive spot in Japanese-Russian relations as of 2005.

* Chris Mooney, The Republican War on Science, 2005.

" The ' Jewish War ': Goebbels and the Antisemitic Campaigns of the Nazi Propaganda Ministry ," Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Volume 19, Number 1, Spring 2005, pp. 51 – 80

* 2005 – The rebuilt Dresden Frauenkirche ( destroyed in the firebombing of Dresden during World War II ) is reconsecrated after a thirteen-year rebuilding project.

In the winter of 2004 / 2005, Smith toured again with Nader in a series of rallies against the Iraq War and called for the impeachment of George W. Bush.

" The Commemoration of Robert E. Lee's Death and the Obstruction of Reconstruction in New Orleans ," Civil War History, Volume 51 # 2 June 2005, pp. 135 – 150

On 27 September 2005, only three days before leaving his post as Chairman, Myers said of the war in Iraq that, " the outcome and consequences of defeat are greater than World War II.

* Wiring the War Zone: Blue Iraq September 2005