The Swords of Mars is a novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, one of the world-famous novels in the Mars series. The Mars series of novels can be read as a whole, connected, or each novel separately, and this adds great importance to this series. In the translation of this series by Dr. Shahrat Al-Alem specifically for Afaq Publishing and Distribution, we have presented to the Arabic language reader this series translated for the first time, as a gift to all readers of the Dhad language. Edgar Rice Burroughs was an American writer best known for his adventure and science fiction novels. He was a soldier in the 7th US Cavalry at Fort, Arizona Territory, but was discharged after developing a heart problem. Burroughs was in his late sixties in Honolulu at the time of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor during World War II. He applied for permission to become a war correspondent, which he did, and Burroughs became one of the longest-serving American war correspondents during World War II.