Spies, sabotage and a surprise alliance bring French and Russian armies onto English soil, and the narrative follows the fighting from the south coast to the streets of London while the navy struggles to recover command of the sea. Le Queux wrote it as a warning about national defence, and the edition carries a commendation from Lord Roberts.
A founding text of the invasion novel, the alarmist genre that shaped British fears in the decades before 1914. Download the free EPUB.