A drifting young journalist from Tarn Regis narrates England’s slide into decadence and pacifism, its unpreparedness for war, and then the shock of a German invasion. The fighting in the Epping and Romford districts is described as a massacre, and out of national humiliation comes the ‘message’ of the title, a call to discipline and service.
A vivid example of the pre-1914 invasion-scare novel, a key to the anxieties that shaped Britain before the Great War. Download the free EPUB.