<p> Thousands of years ago, the Earth was a battlefield. These were the wars that would shape man's destiny&#8212;terrible conflicts that began lifetimes earlier on another planet. </p> <p> Parting the mists of time and myth, the internationally renowned scholar Zecharia Sitchin takes us back in this volume to the violent beginnings of the human story, when gods&#8212;not men&#8212;ruled the Earth. </p> <p> In a spellbinding reconstruction of epic events preserved in legends and ancient writings, he traces the conflicts that began on another world, continued on Earth, and culminated in the use of nuclear weapons&#8212;an event recorded in the Bible as the upheaval of Sodom and Gomorrah. </p>