Introduced by Bernarr Macfadden as a warning against American complacency, this short future-war story imagines a twentieth century in which a militarised Asian power launches fifteen thousand aircraft against the United States. Much of it is seen through the conversations of an American woman, Ethel, with the officer Komoru, who reveals that the great invasion is partly bluff.
A curious piece of preparedness fiction from the early 1920s, coloured by the era’s anxieties about Japan. Download the free EPUB.