If England Were Invaded
No fewer than two hundred thousand Germans were already upon English soil The outlook grew blacker every hour.Eight years before the onset of World War I, as national hysteria over the possibility of…
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No fewer than two hundred thousand Germans were already upon English soil The outlook grew blacker every hour.Eight years before the onset of World War I, as national hysteria over the possibility of German spies in England reached its peak, journalist and prolific spy novelist William Le Queux penned The Invasion of 1910. Although it has since faded from public memory, at the time of its serialization, the novel was a tremendous success, selling more than one million copies and even inspiring an unauthorized, abridged German-language edition that altered the book's ending.If England Were Invaded restores this major work of "invasion literature" to print. Le Queux constructs a catastrophic scenario in which the German army has invaded England in a surprise attack on the coast. The story chillingly chronicles a war fought on the British homeland, with