Chapter One Before the War Chapter Two A Star Falls Chapter Three A Gathering Crowd Chapter Four The Opening of the Cylinder Chapter Five The Killing Begins Chapter Six Chobham Road Chapter Seven How I Made it Home Chapter Eight Friday Evening Chapter Nine The War Begins Chapter Ten The Return to Maybury Chapter Eleven The Artillery Man Chapter Twelve The Attack on Weybridge Chapter Thirteen I Meet the Curate Chapter Fourteen London Chapter Fifteen A New Martian Weapon Is Introduced Chapter Sixteen A Mad Crowd Chapter Seventeen A Heroic Ship Chapter Eighteen The Fifth Cylinder Chapter Nineteen The Martians up Close Chapter Twenty Trapped in the Martian Pit Chapter Twenty-One The Curate Dies Chapter Twenty-Two My Escape from the Pit Chapter Twenty-Three A Surprise Reunion Chapter Twenty-Four Walking Through the Remains of London Chapter Twenty-Five My Return Home Epilogue